TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: Up to 35% of authoritarian-era political cases would be annulled by November, while people sent to re-education would have to wait, the commission said
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 09, 2018
By: Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporter
The Transitional Justice Commission yesterday said that it would repeal all charges
National Human Rights Museum director Chen Chun-hung briefs families of people who were political prisoners during the White Terror era on the government’s progress on transitional justice during a meeting organized by the Transitional Justice Commission at the museum in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
against people whose civic rights have been restored or who have received official compensation for unjust trials during the authoritarian era before June next year.
The commission briefed families of poeple who were political prisoners during the White Terror era on the government’s progress on transitional justice and solicited views on the process during a meeting at the National Human Rights Museum in Taipei.
All miscarriages of justice are to be publicly repealed by Feb. 28 next year, with the exception of the 25 percent of cases where people were sent to “re-education,” which did not require formal sentencing, commission deputy chairman Chang Tien-chin (張天欽) said.
Twenty-five to 35 percent of all cases would be annulled by the end of November, he said. [FULL STORY]
