Demonstrators gathered on Jinan Road, in front of the Legislative Yuan, to demonstrate the KMT and TPP’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today. The rally started at 6:30 PM...
“Do legislators have the right to paralyze the Constitutional Court?” the former Constitutional Court justice Huang Hong-Sia asked the protestors at Peace Memorial Park on 17th October. To her rhetorical question, her audience chanted “No!”...
A demonstration was held today on Jinan Road in front of the Legislative Yuan against the pan-Blue camp’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court. According to organizers, by shortly before 8 PM, over 1,000 were in attendance...
After many months of waiting, the sentencing of the “Hong Kong 47” was announced yesterday. As was not surprising, a number of lengthy sentences were announced. This was the first mass sentencing under the Hong Kong National Security Law, which was passed in 2020, as the largest national security trial held to date in Hong Kong...
Several hundred laywers, along with two thousand supporters protested over the weekend in Taipei against a legislative proposal by KMT legislator Weng Hsiao-ling. In the wake of the protest, further demonstrations are planned by the Judicial Reform Foundation and a number of civil society groups...
After a march marking the one-year anniversary of the start of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza earlier this month, the Obasan Alliance has come under criticism from pro-independence groups over the third party being perceived as standing with pro-unification groups. This has included allegations that the China Unification Promotion Party (CUPP), which is associated with the Bamboo Union organized crime group, was in attendance at the march. This is not true, in that the CUPP was not present...
The DPP has suggested that it may seek a constitutional interpretation over the KMT’s efforts to block the national budget for next year. The KMT has now voted down the national budget five times in a row...
A march took place today in Taipei to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s genocide of Palestine in Gaza. The march today took place after a vigil last week on October 6th, focusing on the lives and stories of martyred Palestinians, as well as a flash mob outside of the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office on October 7th...
Local and international community members across Taipei gathered on Sunday at Liberty Square in Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall to commemorate the 42,000 Palestinian lives that have been murdered by Israeli offensives in the past year, as well as the hundreds recently killed in recent Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon. On the morning of October 7th, organizers from the Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine also held a flash mob outside of the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei in the World Trade Center...
A proposal by the KMT to allow the government, political parties, and the military to indirectly invest in up to 10% of broadcast media proves an unusual proposal. This proves particularly ironic at a time when the KMT has frequently attacked successive DPP presidential administrations over the claim that the DPP clamps down on media through the regulatory body of the National Communications Commission...
