Taipei Times
Date: Jul 20, 2016
By: Hsiang Cheng-chen and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Judicial Yuan presidential nominee Hsieh Wen-ting (謝文定) yesterday denied accusations that
Members of the Alliance for Civic Oversight of Supreme Court Justice Nominees hold banners outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times
he was a prosecutor in charge of multiple controversial cases during the White Terror era, saying that his involvement was limited to “assisting with those investigations.”
Hsieh was accused by 18 judicial reform groups led by the Alliance for Civic Oversight of Supreme Court Justice Nominees and the Judicial Reform Foundation of being the lead prosecutor in multiple White Terror era legal cases that some consider to epitomize human rights violations by the then-authoritarian administration.
The cases included the Jhongli Incident, the Kaohsiung Incident and the murders of relatives of democracy activist Lin I-hsiung (林義雄).
The Jhongli Incident refers to a mass demonstration in 1977 against ballot-rigging by the government in a county commissioner election, and the Kaohsiung Incident, or the Formosa Magazine Incident, refers to a clash between security forces and democracy activists in 1979. [FULL STORY]
