RECONSIDER:Representatives of the Taiwan Society and its various branches were among those speaking against the nominations of Hsieh Wen-ting and Lin Chin-fang
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 25, 2016
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
Pro-localization groups yesterday held a news conference to urge President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英
Taiwan Society chairman Chang Yeh-sen speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday that was held to urge President Tsai Ing-wen to withdraw her nominations for the Judicial Yuan’s top two offices. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
文) to withdraw her nominations for the Judicial Yuan’s top two posts, saying the nominees’ backgrounds make them incompatible with her administration’s aims of transitional justice and judicial reform.
Public Functionary Disciplinary Sanction Commission Chief Commissioner Hsieh Wen-ting (謝文定) has been nominated to be Judicial Yuan president, and Judicial Yuan Secretary-General Lin Chin-fang (林錦芳) to be vice president.
The nominations would hamper judicial reform because Hsieh was a party to human rights violations during the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) authoritarian era, while Lin has a history of intervening in the judicial process, Taiwan Society chairman Chang Yeh-sen (張葉森) told the news conference in Taipei.
Hsieh was a lead prosecutor in cases arising from the Chungli Incident, the Kaohsiung Incident and the murders of democracy activist Lin I-hsiung’s (林義雄) mother and twin daughters. [FULL STORY]
