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 pic. : No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Yandex Russia, 2024-9-3, 2024-7-14, 2024-4-19, 2024-1-9, 2023-12-4, 2023-11-21, 2023-5-28 , 2022-3-24, 2022-1-12, 2021-9-13; No.2 at 2023-7-17

　

 
  pic. : No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, at 2024-9-3, 2024-7-14, 2024-4-19, 2024-1-9, 2023-12-4, 2023-7-17, 2023-5-28, 2023-4-15, 11-20-2020, 9-5-2020;  No.2 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, 2022-12-20, 2022-3-24, 2021-5-11; No.3 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, 2023-2-19; No.2 "Taiwan judiciary" on Yandex of Russia, 2023-4-15, 2022-12-20


　

pic. : No.1 "Taiwan prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-9-3, 2024-7-14, 2023-5-28;

No.1 "Taiwan's prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2023-5-28, No.2 at 2023-4-15;  No.1 "Taiwan's prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2022-1-12, 2021-9-1

　

　

★  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...

　

Chair of TPP, the third largest political party, experienced abuses in Taiwan's prosecution

★  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 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

★TaiwanPlus News, 2024-9-3: 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:Taiwan's 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 :  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: Authorities arrested TPP founder and chairman Ko Wen-je around 2 a.m.  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.  mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240831/p2g/00m/0in/027000c    msn.com/en-us/news/world/ko-wen-je-released-as-corruption-probe-continues-taiwanplus-news/vi-AA1pQxJ5?ocid=BingNewsVerp  TaiwanPlus video
★ 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. 
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★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 

　

★ 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 Guardian, 2024-1-7: Taiwan braces for "big deal" presidential election ...There are also care for children and the elderly, corruption, judicial reform, education and rights for minorities are also immediate concern.

　

★ TaiwanPlus, 2024-4-19:  Judge's Suicide Inspires 'White Flower' Judicial Reform Movement in Taiwan.  taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-news/labor-affairs/240419006/judges-suicide-inspires-white-flower-judicial-reform-movement-in-taiwan

　

★ TIME, 2023-11-20:  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/

　

★ 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
Independent, 2024-7-12 The ruling party pledged to combat corruption when Lai Ching-te became its leader in 2023 and won the presidency in the January election.  Mr Cheng was seen as a potential presidential contender, and is known for his moderate stance on Taiwan’s relations with mainland China and advocacy for normal exchanges.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-detains-former-vice-premier-103340005.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...
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 did the state machine protect him ?
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Taiwan's corruption is a serious issue -  United Daily (2024-7-13 udn.com/news/story/7338/8092107?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2): They said Lai Ching-te is making an example to warn many others in former president Tsai Ing-wen's faction, hence some politicians should be trying to show their loyalty to protect themselves.  United Daily (2024-7-10): The other factions and the opposition should get very jumpy or anxiety about something that is going to happen.

　

★ TaiwanPlus, 2023-3-6: Taiwan Poll Finds Widespread Public Mistrust of Prosecutors /  msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/taiwan-poll-finds-widespread-public-mistrust-of-prosecutors-taiwanplus-news/vi-AA18glWE

　

★  China Times (中時),  2024-7-29: Grand justice must be above suspicion  /  Formosa poll (《美麗島電子報》) shows as high as 51.5% of the public do not believe that the grand justice can exercise their powers independently regardless of party politics.  chinatimes.com/opinion/20240729004661-262101?chdtv

　

★ United Daily  (聯合報), 2024-2-24:  Judicial reform fails !  udn.com/news/story/11091/7790040?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
 ★ United Daily  (聯合報), 2023-11-18:  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

　

★ National ChungCheng University (ccu.edu),   2023-2-13: study found the percentage of Taiwanese trust in the judges is 32.8%.

　

★ 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

　

★ United Daily, 2023-7-18: Many judgments follow directions from the ruling party  udn.com/news/story/7338/7307107?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2

　

★ United Daily, 2023-7-17: 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

　

★ China Times ( 中時),  2023-2-18: Since Tsai Ing-wen was elected as president, her influence has penetrated into the judicial system, the admin. has directed the judiciary what and how to do.  Most of Taiwan's presidents were graduated from law school, but only to exploit the law and abuse their power...  (台灣領導人多數是學法出身，卻被視為玩法弄權者，成民主毒瘤)  chinatimes.com/opinion/20230217003946-262101?chdtv

　

★  United Daily , editorial , 2023-5-24 : After taking office since 2016, the ruling party has completely controlled over the personnel of the judiciary and other independent agencies, repeatedly intervening in particular cases, and constantly creating unconstitutional and illegal cases. A number of resolutions of the judicial reform meeting so far have no follow-up .  After midterm election's defeat, grass-roots everywhere voiced dissatisfactions.  The public don't trust justice - The law enforcement gov. covered up the power and rich, saw the other way as black-gold and corruption returned, instead, frequently refer those criticized the government to justice, The Social Order Maintenance Act, which the DPP advocated to abolish while in opposition, has now become a sharp weapon to suppress people's freedom of speech。udn.com/news/story/7338/7185987?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

　

★  United Daily , editorial , 2023-8-21 : 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

　

★  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

　

★  United Daily (聯合報 社 評), editorial,  2023-6-1, 2023-5-30: President Tsai Ing-wen usually selects grand justice by their  political stance ; It's almost certain that all 15 grand justices will be Tsai's faction.  In the future any constitutional interpretation (釋憲案) must be biased.  udn.com/news/story/11091/7201189?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2   udn.com/news/story/7338/7204383?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

　

★ United Daily (聯合報 社 評), editorial, 2023-1-12 : The courthouse is still a business run by the ruling party   udn.com/news/story/11091/6906767?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2

　

★ US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released at 2022-4-12 (state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/taiwan/):


nthe Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Yuan referred six officials to the Control Yuan for criminal investigation, including former minister of justice Tseng Yung-fu, former prosecutor general Wu Ying-chao, and two others for investigation of noncriminal misconduct, including Supreme Administrative Court judge..., the Judicial Yuan referred six former judges to the Control Yuan for investigation of noncriminal misconduct.  the Ministry of Justice investigated 77 other incumbent and former judicial and law enforcement officials implicated in similar behavior with the same businessperson.
na senior investigator of the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau was indicted for corruption for allegedly profiting from the sale of narcotics worth more than 168 million New Taiwan dollars ($5.6 million) seized in law enforcement investigations over eight years.
 nIn 2020 presidential and legislative elections, President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election,...there were allegations of vote buying by candidates and supporters of both major political parties.

　

　

　

　

pic:  No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, 2024-7-13, 2021-6-24, 1-8-2021; No.2 at 2021-4-18




　

pic.: No.1 "Taiwan prosecutors" on Bing,
2023-5-28, 2023-4-15

　

★  China Times, editorial, 2022-12-25:  After Taiwan's ruling party drubbed in midterm election, in a review DPP held for its loss, the grassroots reported that (1) black gold (2) the judiciary loses the public trust (3) too many fraud and criminal (murder or killing) cases are main factors     chinatimes.com/opinion/20221225002471-262101?chdtv

　

★  China Times, editorial, 2022-11-16:  After the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, the judiciary is willing to degenerate under the selective handling of cases. As long as the case is related to the ruling party, the legal system would delay judging it or concluding it, or even tried to overturn the case through retrial. chinatimes.com/opinion/20221116005059-262101?chdtv

　

★  FTV news (民視 ftvnews.com.tw/video/detail/EZGVKONcl4I  ), 2022-12-17: Taipei city mayor Ko: I still hope that the judiciary is the last line of defense of the country, so far it has not met this standard (希望司法是國家最後一道防線，到目前為止還沒有達到這個標準).  Expert:   Justice is not the last line of defense for social justice.  The judiciary has no way to convince Taiwanese people. All signs of judicial reform are gone. Prosecutors might be self-restricting (自我限縮) themselves depending who the suspect is (Varies from person to person).  The variables are too big for us to believe.  Many judges and prosecutors transfer their job to be a lawyer, rising the question that - is judging or investigation working well ? The current judges and prosecutors are their juniors, the field of judiciary still "respect" the ethics.  In today's Taiwan, the clients usually do not ask which lawyer is more capable or more experienced, but ask whether or not the lawyer is familiar with judges and prosecutors. They are all talking about relationships and connections! Taiwan's judicial reform will never work !   資深媒體人吳國棟