After close to a decade, the Supreme Court moved to clear Indigenous Bunun hunter Tama Talum of a conviction on firearms possession and hunting of a protected Formosan Serow earlier this month...
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen pardoned Indigenous hunter Tama Talum yesterday. This was Tsai’s first use of the presidential pardon during her two terms as president, as well as the seventh time that the pardon was used in ROC history...
Indigenous groups expressed regret yesterday after a ruling by the Council of Grand Justices yesterday that found some elements of current law regulating Indigenous hunting rights unconstitutional, but mostly upheld them...
Indigenous activists held an overnight sleep-in outside of the Judicial Yuan yesterday night, with a hearing scheduled to take place on the Tama Talum case today...
It seems likely that the Tama Talum case can now be added to the growing list of issues that Tsai Ing-Wen promised to take action on during campaigning but has failed to substantially push for while in office...
