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Religious Liberty and Democracy: A Never-Ending Journey
Every year, Taiwan commemorates the 228 incident, a dark page of its past, and vows to protect democracy. But this should include protecting freedom of religion or belief.
Taxpayers Rights and Spiritual Movements in Taiwan
The 2016 Taxpayers Rights Protection Act should have solved the problems of unfair tax enforcement. It did not succeed completely, as the Tai Ji Men case continues to show.
The Notion of “Effective Remedies” and the Tai Ji Men Case
Rogue bureaucrats guilty of human rights violations should be prosecuted to prevent further abuse.
Social Justice, Taxes, and Freedom of Religion or Belief
A Webinar revisited the notion of “social justice,” and how it was violated in the Tai Ji Men tax case in Taiwan.
Music, Education, and Freedom of Religion or Belief
A music teacher with extensive academic experience reflects on what music has to do with global education and human rights.
How Taxes May Be Misused to Persecute Spiritual Minorities
Interestingly enough, tax-based crackdown on spiritual movements started in France and Taiwan in the same year, 1996.
Tax Justice and Persecution of Minority Religions
The Russian experience may serve as a cautionary tale for what is now happening in Taiwan with the Tai Ji Men case.
An International Day of Education Webinar: FORB and Tax Justice
On January 24, scholars from different continents discussed how to educate to freedom of religion or belief, conscience, legality, and fiscal fairness.
The 2016 Ambush Telephone Survey: A Telling Chapter in Tai Ji Men’s Legal Saga
The Taiwan National Tax Bureau tried to invalidate the results of its own previous open survey through suggestive phone interviews and fax response forms.
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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