Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/08
By: Lu Hsin-hui and Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Dec. 8 (CNA) The record of Taiwanese novelist Yang Kui (楊逵), who was
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imprisoned by the Kuomintang (KMT) government from 1949 to 1961, will be expunged on Sunday as he has been categorized as a victim of political persecution, an official with the Transitional Justice Commission said Saturday.
The move is part of the work of the Transitional Justice Commission, which has already expunged the records of 1,270 people it said were victims of political persecution.
Yang’s name will be among the 1,505 that will be removed from the country’s criminal records on Sunday in the second round of such actions by the commission, said Yang’s granddaughter Yang Tsui (楊翠), who is now acting head of the Transitional Justice Commission.
Yang Kui was imprisoned in 1949 for publishing a “Declaration of Peace,” a document that called on the government to release political prisoners who had been arrested during a brutal crackdown by the KMT after an anti-government uprising on Feb. 28, 1947 that left an estimated 18,000-28,000 people dead. [FULL STORY]
