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Taiwan prosecutors

followed orders to conclude cases

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pic. : No.1 "Taiwan prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-9-3, 2024-7-14, 2024-4-19, 2023-12-4, 2023-11-21, 2023-7-17, 2023-5-28;

No.1 "Taiwan's prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-9-3, 2022-1-12, 2021-9-1; pic. : No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, 2024-9-3, 2024-4-19, 2023-12-4, 2023-5-28, 2023-4-15, 11-20-2020, 9-5-2020

★ War On The Rocks (2024-9-20): Washington is quietly watching how Taiwan's new president Lai consolidates power, using the court to prosecute former vice premier Cheng Wen-tsan over corruption allegations. Cheng's arrest reflects an intra-party political struggle between a pair of long-time rivals. The arrest and detention of Taiwan People's Party chairman and former Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je on corruption charges, as well as a number of corruption cases involving Kuomintang (KMT) officials have Lai's critics protesting that he is using the judiciary to persecute rivals. Washington observers might worry that Lai is undermining the independence of the judicial system...

"extreme oppression, mistreatment and abuse" by prosecutors

★ Financial Times (UK), 2024-9-6: Prosecutors' swift moves against Cheng (former premier 鄭文燦) and Ko Wen-je (Chairman of TPP) have prompted Taiwanese commentators to question whether president Lai was “cleaning house” of political rivals or pushing an anti-corruption crackdown to win back public support (divert attention from the current chaos in domestic politics.). an official at the Judicial Yuan said investigators typically sounded out their superiors before proceeding with big cases, especially those involving vested interests or politicians. “In a case like this, a signal would have been given from above before they go and detain him" ft.com/content/65c8f0f5-de31-4f10-89cb-b2f5acfddc2b

★After being released by the court at 2024-9-2, TPP founder & chairperson Ko Wen-je told reporters he experienced "extreme oppression, mistreatment and abuse" (「極盡壓迫跟凌虐」) by prosecutors during two days' detention in graft probe....

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Council on Foreign Relations, 2024-9-3: Ko Wen-je──accuses the government of attempting to “suppress” its opponents and the press and judiciary of “being the government’s political tools.”

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Asia Nikkei (Japan), 2024-9-5:

Ko Wen-je accuses government of witch hunt ... and launched broadsides against the legal system and the press, accusing them of doing the bidding of President Lai Ching-te's Democratic Progressive Party..."the judiciary and the media being the government's political tools" ( the KMT's most powerful lawmaker, that most legal professionals only listen to the DPP)

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The Diplomat, 2024-9-3: The TPP increasingly began leaning into the narrative that Ko's arrest was a form of political persecution...

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TaiwanPlus News, 2024-9-3: video msn.com/en-us/news/world/ko-wen-je-released-as-corruption-probe-continues-taiwanplus-news/vi-AA1pQxJ5?ocid=BingNewsVerp
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cti-news video, 2024-9-3 :

Taiwan using state machine on me (政府動用"國家機器"!)

Ko Wen-je: today's judiciary and media are tools for politics and ruling the country

(今天的司法跟媒體不是政治工具嗎?

不是

統治工具

嗎

? 我有講錯嗎? 怎國家變成這個樣子?

)

youtube.com/watch?v=vSpc6xmIHmo

★ Mainichi (Japan), 2024-8-31	Ko said it is the first time in Taiwan's history that the home and office of a major opposition party leader, as well as a party headquarters, have been searched. He called for authorities to explain what evidence they have to take such action
★ US News & World Report, 2024-9-1	The TPP and KMT joined forces this year to push through reforms to give parliament greater oversight power that prompted mass protests. Those reforms, opposed by President Lai Ching-te's DPP, are being reviewed by Taiwan's constitutional court.
★ UDN (Taiwan), 2024-9-11	The situation that the prosecutors violate "The Secrecy of Criminal Investigation" (偵查不公開) has been from bad to worse, and no any prosecutors were charged for this. Taiwan has become party-prosecution-media-politics complex (「黨檢媒的政治複合體」), that's main reason why the public lost trust on the judiciary for a long time. udn.com/news/story/124199/8220063?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub124199_pulldownmenu_v2
★ UDN (Taiwan), 2024-9-11	politics to intervene the judiciary! even use the judiciary as a tool to attack political opponents and expand power. Is it the right way to govern the country by using the judiciary to promote hatred and intensify social antagonism udn.com/news/story/7338/8219943?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_cate

Taiwan detains former vice premier from ruling party in corruption probe
★Bloomberg, 2024-7-12	A court ordered Cheng Wen-tsan detained while he is investigated for corruption, the latest development in the highest-profile graft probe in the democratically run archipelago since President Chen Shui-bian in 2008.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-detains-former-vice-premier-011805411.html
★Radio Taiwan International, 2024-7-12	Prosecutors are accusing Cheng of accepting bribes, leaking information, and laundering money, among several other crimes. Cheng has strong political and business connections, and concerns were raised about potential collusion...
★TaiwanPlus, 2024-7-12	Taiwan's former Vice Premier is behind bars after prosecutors persuaded a court that he could use his connections to interfere in his investigation into alleged bribery
★United Daily, 2024-7-12	Cheng took bribes 7 years ago, for the past years, they can always grasp the situation of the secret investigation. How does the state machine protect him ? udn.com/news/story/11091/8090251?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2
Taiwan's corruption is a serious issue - ★United Daily (2024-7-10): The other factions and the opposition should get very jumpy or anxiety about something that is going to happen.

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★ USA Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Taiwan , 2024-4-22

Some political commentators and academics, however, publicly questioned the impartiality of judges and prosecutors involved in high profile, politically sensitive cases.

the government's judicial reform website hasn't been updated since 2020. “Does that mean the government didn't do anything or just doesn't care about this topic?” asked the spokesman for a lawyer's group pointedly. time.com/6336441/taiwan-presidental-election-william-lai-profile/

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Taiwan Poll Finds Widespread Public Mistrust of Prosecutors

2023-2-13

★ China Times, 2023-7-30

Taiwan vice president Lai Ching-te says there is a long long way to go before the legal reform satisfying the public. In 2019, Mr. Lai said the legal reform will be half way done if we can eliminate rotten and illegal judges and prosecutors. chinatimes.com/opinion/20230730002752-262101?chdtv

Tens of thousands joined a protest in Taipei, their main demand was to express dissatisfaction with judiciary and housing price. the KMT's Hou You-yi says judicial reform is an empty shell, Terry Guo says both policy are "bad checks", Dr. Ko Wen-je of Taiwan People's Party says the public do not trust our legal system. udn.com/news/story/123619/7304940?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub123619_pulldownmenu_v2

The very serious "abnormal" relationship between the police and the prosecution was exposed recently. The systems of judiciary, prosecution and police are rotten from the roots.udn.com/news/story/7338/7582230?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2

★ China Times, 2023-7-31

the public repeatedly question the prosecutors take politics into considerations to conclude legal cases. chinatimes.com/opinion/20230731004404-262101?chdtv brief

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Many judgments or conclusions follow directions from the ruling party udn.com/news/story/7338/7307107?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2

★ United Daily, 2023-12-4

In the prosecution & investigation gov., promotion by political loyalty (政治掛帥的封官圖) has already badly damaged our national civil service system (文官體制)。

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★ United Daily , editorial

Taiwan's judiciary is inactive in major cases, but gives heavy penalties to minor cases / The public's long-standing mistrust of the judiciary lies in wanton abuses of enforcement power, very doubtful measurements of penalties or unclear standards by the prosecutor/judges, too light or too heavy of the judgments; e.g., the prosecutors did nothing to a NT$ billions suspected cases - HsinChu City Baseball Court, but gave 12-years sentence to a NT$8000 case. udn.com/news/story/7338/7382647?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_cate

Take a lesson from S. Korea ! their judiciary dares to strictly investigate and severely punish presidents. The only solution to avoid a rotten Taiwan is an independent prosecutor system udn.com/news/story/7338/7195377?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

Taipei City Councilor: Taiwanese people don't trust the prosecutor system in recent years udn.com/news/story/6656/7288637?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub6656_pulldownmenu_v2

★ China Times, editorial , 2023-4-10

an anti-corruption union is what Taiwan needs, KMT earns public trust on anti-corruption issue? ...The vaccine procurement case involving huge profits is full of doubts, but the prosecutors and investigation gov. don't even touch it ! chinatimes.com/opinion/20230410004586-262101?chdtv

★ United Daily, 2023-4-1

Taiwan judiciary suppresses the opposition, lets go the ruling party (打壓在野黨輕縱執政黨司法想當鷹犬？) udn.com/news/story/11091/7072002?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2

★ United Daily, 2023-4-23

Taipei chief prosecutor steps down for low degree of adaptability (on HsinChu city mayor Ann Kao's case), disappointing the top ranking。Some other prosecutors did good job on major political cases got promotion. udn.com/news/story/7338/7116838?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2

pic. : No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-9-3, 2024-4-19, 2023-12-4, 2023-5-28,
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