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【Proposition】 Don’t Let President Tsai’s Talk of Rescuing the People of Hong Kong Become an Empty Promise
The following article was published on the Apple Daily on 2020/05/25 Written by Shih Yi-hsiang / Secretary General of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights The Chinese People’s Congress shocked the world on June 22nd with a draft of the “Decision on Establishing and Improving the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanism for the Safeguard of National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. The draft spoke of enacting measures against any activities that may subvert the regime and required the Hong Kong government to finish Article 23 to maintain China’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and unity across the two governments.…
[Joint Statement]China: Release Taiwanese Activist Li Ming-Che
Today, 19 March 2020, marks the third anniversary of the arbitrary detention of Taiwanese human rights defender Li Ming-Che by the Chinese authorities. Since his arbitrary arrest, Li Ming-Che’s rights have continued to be violated while in detention. We, the undersigned national and international organisations, strongly condemn these violations and call on the Government of China to release him and end the use of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances against activists and human rights defenders. Li Ming-Che is currently detained in Chi-Shan prison, Hunan Province. Li Ming-Che worked for the promotion of civil and political rights in Taiwan and in…
Timeline of Mr. Li Ming-che’s case
2017 March 19：LI went “missing” soon after he enter China’s Gong-Bei Port from Macau. March 20：LI’s wife, Mrs. LI Jing-Yu reported his missing to Taiwan’s Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) under the State Council as well. The latter responded with “no such information was reported by the relevant authorities.” March 24 : First NGO and family joint press conference. Taiwan Association for Human Rights ask the Chinese government to release the video record of CCTV in the port of entry. March 29： Spokesperson of TAO confirmed of LI’s detention by national security forces at its…
Freedom Of Expression Is Not A Crime! Free Li, Ming-Che Immediately!
—Joint statement from NGOs alliance for rescuing Mr. Li, Ming-Che Today (28th of November) marks the 254th day since the Taiwanese human rights activist, Li, Ming-Che (李明哲) was first forced to disappear by the Chinese authorities on the 19th of March earlier this year. It was not until two months later on 26th of May that the Chinese authority confirmed his arrest. Yet to see Li standing in his trial took us six months after his first arrest on 11th of September. This morning, Li was sentenced to five years in prison by the Chinese court for “subversion of state power.” The court…