‘WHITE TERROR’: A party member likened Investigation Bureau officers to Gestapo, because they made a mess of Chen Ssu-chun’s belongings when searching his home
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 20, 2017
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The New Party yesterday decried what it said was the Democratic Progressive Party’s
New Party supporters protest outside the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau in New Taipei City’s Xindian District yesterday after the bureau detained four party members in relation to alleged breaches of the National Security Act. Photo: CNA
(DPP) “barbaric arrest” of four of its members for alleged violations of the National Security Act (國家安全法).
Investigation Bureau officers at about 6:30am yesterday raided the homes of New Party spokesman Wang Ping-chung (王炳忠) and party members Hou Han-ting (侯漢廷), Lin Ming-cheng (林明正) and Chen Ssu-chun (陳斯俊) in Taipei and New Taipei City, seizing documents, computers and cellphones, and taking the four to the bureau for questioning on the grounds that they allegedly collected and provided intelligence to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“What intelligence could they possibly collect and provide? What have they done other than openly oppose [Taiwanese] independence and advocate unification” between Taiwan and China, New Party Deputy Chairman Lee Sheng-feng (李勝峰) told a news conference in Taipei.
Wang, Hou and Lin are household names for their anti-independence, pro-unification remarks in the media, and by targeting the three most well-known young members of the party, the DPP is attempting to silence the New Party, Lee said. [FULL STORY]
