Democratic Progressive Party

Over 100,000 demonstrated in Taipei today against the legal amendments that the KMT and TPP are intent on railroading through the Taiwanese legislature. The demonstration started at 9 AM and ended around midnight when the legislative session ended. The protest was clearly one of the largest demonstrations in Taiwan since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, particularly seeing as most protests of this size in the years since then have been daytime protests that were planned ahead of time, and took place during the daytime on weekends...

As today's demonstration against the KMT and TPP's efforts to expand prosecutorial powers continues, we present a series of photos by Em Gunter of the protests. As of late afternoon, the protest has now reached 30,000 individuals, the same size as the demonstration on Tuesday. The protests are expanded as night falls, particularly as tonight is Friday night, compared to how Tuesday was a weekday...

Ahead of tomorrow's protest outside of the legislature against the KMT and TPP's efforts to expand prosecutorial powers, which is expected to be a large-scale demonstration, we present photos and documentation from the demonstration of 30,000 against the KMT and TPP on Tuesday. We are putting a call out to readers to contribute their photo and video documentation of the upcoming demonstration, in the interests of archiving the protest. ...

At its peak, the demonstration that took place outside of the Legislative Yuan yesterday against attempts by the KMT to expand legislative power drew 30,000 individuals. This occurred despite drizzles in the afternoon and heavy rain during the early evening...

Tens of thousands are gathered around the Legislative Yuan, in demonstration of the pan-Blue camp’s planned changes to grant new prosecutorial powers to legislators. According to organizers, 30,000 are present. This occurs despite heavy rain at times...

A spontaneous protest took place outside of the Legislative Yuan tonight, drawing hundreds of young people. Overnight spontaneous demonstrations on the scale of today’s protest have been rarely seen in the ten years since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, with such protests mostly fading after the Tsai administration took office...