Taipei, March 4 (CNA) The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the four-year sentence handed down to a retired military officer who was convicted of breaking Taiwan's national security law by attempting to develop a spy network for China.
A hostel owner in Taitung City was last week ordered to pay NT$30,000 (US$1,071) in compensation after he threatened political pundit Wang Ruei-deh (王瑞德) with assault for allegedly calling on his online followers to attack him.
Wang was seeking damages of NT$1 million over a dispute stemming from an online comment Pisces Youth Hostel owner Lin Ho-yi (林和誼) made after the deadly crash of a Taroko Express train on April 2 last year.
Lin wrote on Facebook that the derailment was “caused by Taiwan Railways Administration trolls,” sparking public anger and a subsequent media investigation that found Lin was operating the
The New Taipei District Court on Thursday found Toucheng Township Mayor Tsao Qian-shun (曹乾舜) guilty of corruption, sentencing him to six years and six months in jail, and revoking his civil rights for four years.
Tsao, a member of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), was convicted on three counts of contravening provisions of the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例).
Tsao is in his second term as mayor of the Yilan County township, after he was first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018.
Tsao was placed in judicial detention after prosecutors found evidence of corruption following a probe launched in November 2019.
The court convicted Tsao
The High Court yesterday sentenced a man to life in prison for killing a woman in New Taipei City in March last year.
The judges said that Wu Shan-yi (吳上誼) fired three shots with a handgun at the woman, surnamed Lai (賴), on a mountain road in Sansia District (三峽).
The court also sentenced Lai’s then-boyfriend, Hong Kuo-feng (洪國峰), to a prison term for his involvement in the killing, after the New Taipei District Court in January acquitted him.
The ruling’s cannot be appealed.
Investigators said that Wu, Hong and Lai had been friends.
Wu told them that he had seen Hong and Lai arguing,
Doctoral student and media commentator Raphael Lin (林秉樞) is in detention and has had his communication rights limited after he was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly subjecting Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Kao Chia-yu (高嘉瑜) to two days of violence in a hotel room, the New Taipei District Court said yesterday.
The New Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office had filed a request to detain Lin who was Kao’s boyfriend at the time of the incident with the court approving the request early yesterday.
The prosecutors’ office said that it is likely to charge Lin with seven offenses: assault causing bodily harm, violating