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Gandhi, Non-Violence, and the Tai Ji Men Case
The Indian leader’s concept of satyagraha was originally developed in South Africa while protesting unjust taxes.
2010: The First Tai Ji Men Report at the UN’s Human Rights Council
An important passage in the history of the Tai Ji Men case highlights the pioneer role of the Association of World Citizens.
Democracy and the Tai Ji Men Case
Democracy requires an effective separation of powers and keeping bureaucrats in check. It did not happen in Taiwan.
Democracy, Transitional Justice, and the Tai Ji Men Case
When a country moves from a non-democratic to a democratic regime, past wrongdoings should be acknowledged and rectified. It is not easy.
Scholars Discuss Transitional Justice, Tai Ji Men Case
On International Day of Democracy, lecturers from different countries explained why the case is a test for Taiwan’s democratic transition.
Attacks Against Religious Minorities’ Real Estate Denounced at the UN Human Rights Council
A written submission exposed a growing international problem, quoting the Tai Ji Men case in Taiwan.
Targeting Tai Ji Men: Why It Is “Violence Based on Belief”
The administrative persecution of Tai Ji Men fits the definition of the United Nations Resolution 73/296.
Four Webinars on Tai Ji Men and Administrative Violence – Part II
In the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, more scholars and witnesses reflected on the case.
Four Webinars on Tai Ji Men and Administrative Violence – Part I
In the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, scholars and witnesses reflected on the case.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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