Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/02/05
By: Huang Li-yun and Chi Jo-yao 

Taipei, Feb. 5 (CNA) The Taiwan New Cultural Movement Museum in Taipei was once a police station but today it attracts daily visitors, who go there mainly to see the detention center and torture chamber that were housed in the dingy interior.

Built in 1933 during the period of Japanese colonization, the baroque-style building on Ningxia Road in the city’s Datong District was nothing special, according to a police officer who worked there for 12 years before moving to a new precinct nearby.

During the Japanese era, it was the Taipei North Police Station, and after World War II it became the Datong Police Station, which was staffed by some 200 officers crowded into the drab interior, said the police officer, who asked not to be named.

He said files were stacked haphazardly everywhere and the street noises penetrated the walls day and night.    [FULL  STORY]