WHITE TERROR: The move is aimed at removing the stigma that victims and their families have been carrying, while emphasizing the urgency of transitional justice
Taipei Times
Date: May 31, 2019
By: Chen Yu-fu and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Transitional Justice Commission yesterday overturned the guilty convictions of 2,006
Vice President Chen Chien-jen, center, other officials and special guests attend a ceremony in Taipei on Jan. 30 to mark the Transitional Justice Commission’s first overturning of White Terror era political prisoners’ convictions.
Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
political victims of the White Terror and authoritarian eras, including former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and Presidential Office Secretary-General Chen Chu (陳菊).
Former Examination Yuan president Yao Chia-wen (姚嘉文), former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Huang Hsin-chieh (黃信介) and activist Shih Ming-te (施明德) were also part of a fourth group of people to be exonerated by the commission.
Lu, Chen Chu, Yao, Huang and Shih had been on the staff of Formosa Magazine (美麗島).
The list also includes former Free China (自由中國) magazine staff members Lei Chen (雷震), Ma Chih-su (馬之驌), Fu Cheng (傅正) and Liu Tzu-ying (劉子英). [FULL STORY]
