Expanding stalking bill to protect, aid victims
By Lin Fenyu 林芬瑜
On April 8, a woman was killed in a “traffic accident” in Pingtung County that turned out to be an abduction and homicide case. The victim had for a long time been stalked and harassed by the perpetrator, eventually leading to her tragic death.
The woman’s grieving family hopes that a law that prevents stalking and harassment would soon be enacted so that such incidents would not happen again.
Taiwan has no law specifically about stalking. In practice, stalkers are often penalized in accordance with the Social Order Maintenance Act (社會秩序維護法), which forbids “stalking another person without justifiable reasons despite having been dissuaded.”
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Taiwan Security Officials Propose Ban on Chinese Flag
A new bill would make displaying the PRC flag into a national security offense. Critics say it would violate freedom of speech.
April 24, 2021
In this Aug. 22, 2016, file photo, pro-China group members hold Chinese national flags and a banner reading ”Welcome Sha Hailin” outside a venue of a dinner party held by Taipei Mayor Ke Wen-je, for Sha Hailin, head of the United Front Work Department of Chinese Communist Party’s Shanghai Municipal Committee, in Taipei, Taiwan.
Credit: AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying
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Taiwanese national security officials want to criminalize the display of the five-star People’s Republic of China (PRC) flag on national security grounds, a move that would reignite a simmering domestic debate over protected speech.
KMT urges recall of envoy to Japan
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to remove Representative to Japan Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) from office over comments on the Japanese government’s plan to release processed wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant into the ocean.
The discharge is to begin in two years, Tokyo said on Tuesday last week.
“From my personal standpoint, protesting Japan’s release of wastewater from the nuclear power plant is a very simple and natural thing,” Hsieh wrote on Facebook on the day after the
announcement. “However, from the standpoint of representing Taiwan, I have to consider that the wastewater from Taiwan’s three nuclear power plants is also discharged into the sea.”
Security officials propose ban on display of PRC flag
SOCIAL ORDER ISSUE: Legislators are discussing whether to consider the act a national security offense, which the officials said should be reserved for more serious felonies
By Chen Yu-fu
and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
National security officials have recommended criminalizing the display of the five-star People’s Republic of China (PRC) flag under social order law, as legislators deliberate an amendment that would consider the act a national security offense.
A bill proposed by Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) and supported by 29 other lawmakers would amend the National Security Act (國家安全法) to ban actions that damage national identity or work in favor of a hostile foreign power.