Arrested journalists pan Taipei report

‘DEVOID OF CONTENT’:The reporters arrested at the Ministry of Education break-in said it reads like a grade-school report, only asking police to examine their attitude

Taipei Times
Date:  Sep 08, 2015
By: Lu Heng-chien  /  Staff reporter

The three journalists arrested while covering an intrustion into the Ministry of

Left to right, lawyer Wellington Koo, Kuo An-chia of the Liberty Times union, freelance journalist Lin Yu-yu and Sung Hsiao-hai of coolloud.org.tw hold a P03-150908-007press conference in Taipei yesterday.  Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

Left to right, lawyer Wellington Koo, Kuo An-chia of the Liberty Times union, freelance journalist Lin Yu-yu and Sung Hsiao-hai of coolloud.org.tw hold a P03-150908-007press conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

Education compound on July 23 yesterday said the report released by the Taipei City Government on the incident does not shed any light on the key questions surrounding the arrests.

Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) photographer Liao Chen-hui (廖振輝), Sung Hsiao-hai (宋小海) of news Web site Coolloud.org.tw (苦勞網) and freelance journalist Lin Yu-yu (林雨佑) were among 33 people arrested the day after a group of student activists entered the building to protest adjustments to the high-school curriculum guidelines.     [FULL  STORY]

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