Taipei Times
Date: Jan 08, 2018
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
New Power Party (NPP) members yesterday filed a legal complaint against Taipei City
New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Hsu Yung-ming speaks during a protest outside the Presidential Office Building in Taipei yesterday as the party continues its sit-in protest and hunger strike. The NPP has asked lawyers to fight an order for it to remove the tents protesters have erected on the sidewalk. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
police for the use of force in dismantling NPP lawmakers’ temporary rain shelter in front of the Presidential Office Building, while they continued their hunger strike against proposed amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法).
NPP Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) and Legislator Hsu Yung-ming (徐永明) signed an authorization form to commission a team of lawyers who went to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office and filed the legal complaint.
Huang and Hsu said the police early yesterday morning applied force when taking down their temporary rain shelter, which led to a scuffle.
Doing so had breached provisions of the Criminal Code (刑法) they said, adding that by erecting wired barricades to restrict traffic and pedestrians, police had violated the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法). [FULL STORY]
