By Lin Feng-jeng 林峰正 Thursday, Jul 23, 2009, Page 8 On July 13, Aboriginal folk singer Panai (巴奈) performed at a press conference organized by academics and social activists to symbolically “surrender” under the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法). More than 120 academics and social activists decided to turn themselves in to prosecutors for breaking the assembly law in a show of support for two professors who have been indicted for contravening the same act. Before singing, Panai asked who should turn themselves in. The government should turn itself in, she said, and broke into song, playing her guitar.…

By Liu Ching-yi, Lai Chung-chiang, Huang Kuo-chang 劉靜怡 賴中強 黃國昌 Monday, Jul 20, 2009, Page 8 On June 3, shortly before the end of the last legislative session, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus tabled its latest proposed amendment to the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法). It publicized the proposal the next day, claiming to have considered criticism and opinions from civic groups and opposition parties. In reality, however, the draft is full of proposals designed to suppress civil freedoms while giving the police room to abuse their powers. This draft is far removed from what civic groups want, namely…

Give Us a Parade and Assembly Law in Accordance with the Development of Democracy Alliance for the Amendment of the Parade and Assembly Law Press Release After the negotiation breakdown of the draft law in March, as it moves on to the decision by vote in the Legislative Yuan, the Alliance for the Amendment of the Parade and Assembly Law has started a series of campaigns to stop the bad version of amendment. During the past two moths, different parties, including NGO workers, scholars, experts from the human rights advisory council, and the newspaper editors have issued severe criticism. The…

EDITORIAL: An exercise in wasting time Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009, Page 8 For civic groups that long hoped for an overhaul of the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法), the amendment expected to pass soon is disheartening. It fails to resolve the problems with the law that prompted calls for an amendment in the first place.

Activists pan changes to Assembly and Parade Act By Shelley HuangSTAFF REPORTERTuesday, Apr 28, 2009, Page 2 Civic groups yesterday slammed the government over a proposed amendment to the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) that would require demonstrators to notify authorities of any demonstration ahead of time, saying that it violated international conventions. The Taiwan Association for Human Rights said the amendment was not only a violation of human rights, but that it also violated the UN’s International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which was ratified by the legislature last month.

KMT tosses gauntlet at Taiwan human rights Taiwan News, Staff WriterPage 62009-04-28 12:30 AM Taiwan’s eroding standard of civic and human rights faces a new threat from the restored rightist Kuomintang government under President Ma Ying-jeou in the form of regressive revisions to the already restrictive Assembly and Parade Law. Last Friday, opposition Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers occupied the Legislative Yuan Speaker’s podium and blocked passage of the KMT’s proposed revisions, but the bill may be rammed through by the ruling party’s three-fourths majority today over the protests of human rights, judicial reform and other civic and social groups and…

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Activists, academics ‘surrender’ to protest law By Loa Iok-sin STAFF REPORTER Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009, Taipei Times, Page 1 Members of Academia Sinica, professors and social activists attend a press conference in Taipei yesterday to protest against the Assembly and Parade Act and show their support for Lee Ming-tsung and Lin Chia-fan, who face charges under the act. PHOTO: LO PEI-DER, TAIPEI TIMES More than 120 academics and human rights activists said yesterday they would turn themselves in to prosecutors for breaking the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) in a protest against the legislation. One after another, more than 30…

A magnificent Rome was not built in one day, and it would take more than one day to destroy a vicious Rome. During the process of democratization, Taiwan has never looked back to identify the root causes for violence or provided transitional justice initiatives. Up-to-date, numerous policies, laws, culture myth and value are still shadowed by Martial Law, waiting in the dark corners of society for the chance to resume lost power. They linger in the sub-consciousness of our bureaucrats and citizens or even blatantly appear in the form of present laws. And worst of all, nobody seems to care.…