A permanent exhibition on Taiwan’s decades-long fight for speech freedoms opened on Thursday at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, where participants also remembered late democracy activist Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕), who committed suicide 33 years ago.
The exhibition, titled Taiwan’s Long Walk to Freedom of Speech, chronicles the country’s social movements and key events in support of speech freedoms, Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te (李永得) said at the opening ceremony.
From 1945 until 1992, when a law that made dissent illegal was amended, numerous people across many generations sacrificed personal freedoms, and even their lives, to fight for free speech and