Taipei Times
Date: Jul 31, 2015
By: Wu Po-husan  /  Staff reporter

As the nation reels from the news that student activist Dai Lin (林冠華) has taken his own life,

High-school student activist Dai Lin holds up a sign reading “Education is not a political tool” in an undated photograph. Facebook screen grab

an interview with the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper) showed the pressure he was under due to his participation in protests against the government’s planned changes to high-school student curriculum guidelines.

Lin was one of 33 people arrested on Thursday night last week for entering the Ministry of Education building and was facing possible prosecution along with 23 other activists.

During a telephone interview on Sunday — two days after his release on bail — Lin said that the principal of New Taipei City’s Juang Jing Vocational High School had visited him hours earlier to discuss his involvement in the demonstration.     [FULL  STORY]