Ko Wen-je supporters rallied yesterday at Liberty Plaza in support of the embattled TPP leader. Organizers claimed that 150,000 attended the event, though there are allegations that the crowd count was wildly inflated and closer to 15,000...
Taiwan People Party chair Ko Wen-je faces up to 28 years and six months in prison, but has since been released on bail. Ko’s release last Friday saw the Taiwan District Court deny a motion by prosecutors to keep Ko behind bars...
Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, the leader of the TPP, was indicted earlier today. Prosecutors are seeking a jail sentence of 28 years and six months in jail for Ko...
Courts agreed to extend the detention of former Taipei mayor and TPP head Ko Wen-je for another two months earlier this week. This means that Ko will spend close to four months detained...
Ko Wen-je of the TPP continues to be racked by scandal. Ko remains in jail after having been jailed last week, with the overturning of his release without bail. The severity of Ko’s imprisonment is higher than previous arrests, during which he was mostly questioned by prosecutors. Ko has been sent to a prison in Tucheng and is to be treated as any other prisoner would be...
The TPP continues to face controversy, with party leader Ko Wen-je’s release without bail now revoked. As such, Ko is again held incommunicado. Ko was sent directly to prison this time and is not being held at the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office. Ko is in a cell with three other inmates and authorities have emphasized that Ko will be treated as any other prisoner would...
Issues of political corruption continue to be prevalent in Taiwanese politics, as a number of recent incidents go to show. This has drawn in politicians both pan-Blue and pan-Green...
Ko Wen-je and the TPP continue to suffer successive political controversies, with regards to charges of corruption or mismanagement. At this point, it is probably accurate to deem the current controversies faced by the TPP as among the party’s largest political crises to date...
