RIGHT TO PROTEST: The party called on President Tsai Ing-wen to honor her 2008 promise to amend the Assembly and Parade Act to remove restrictions on rallies
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 07, 2018
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
The New Power Party will ignore a police summons for questioning over the party’s
New Power Party legislators Huang Kuo-chang, left, and Hsu Yung-ming hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday to criticize President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration for continuing to use the Assembly and Parade Act against peaceful protesters, after they both received court summonses. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
protest in front of the Presidential Office Building last month, NPP Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) and NPP Legislator Hsu Yung-ming (徐永明) said yesterday, urging the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to amend the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) soon.
NPP legislators — including Huang, Hsu, Kawlo Iyun Pacidal, Hung Tsu-yung (洪慈庸) and Freddy Lim (林昶佐) — had launched a hunger strike on Jan. 5 to protest the DPP’s proposed amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), which would allow employees to work longer with less overtime pay.
The protest went on for four days in front of the Presidential Office Building — where rallies are restricted — until police evicted them on Jan. 8. [FULL STORY]
