Taipei Times
Date: Jan 31, 2018 
By: Ann Maxon  /  Staff reporter

The Taipei Bar Association, the Taiwan Association for Human Rights and other groups yesterday called on the Control Yuan to investigate what they said was the illegal arrest last month of lawyers and members of the public during a protest in Taipei against amending the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法).

Thousands of people gathered outside the Legislative Yuan on Dec. 23 to voice their opposition to the proposed amendments. At about 11pm, a group of about 50 protesters moved to Taipei Railway Station.

Police cordoned off the area around the group at the station and began arresting people, including lawyers Ting Wen-sheng (丁穩勝) and Chen Yu-hsin (陳又新), putting them in police cars and then driving them to random, remote locations to be dropped off, the Taipei Bar Association said.    [FULL  STORY]