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
Taipei, April 7 (CNA) A permanent exhibition about Taiwan's decades-long fight for freedom of speech opened Thursday at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, where participants also remembered late activist Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕), who committed suicide exactly 33 years ago.
An annual Taichung festival that celebrates freedom began yesterday ahead of 228 Peace Memorial Day.
The fourth edition of the Born2BeFree Festival titled “What about? Communication?” is at the Taiwan Sun Cake Museum and runs through April 24. It was created by Cosmopolitan Culture Action Taichung (CCAT), a non-governmental organization that supports and curates cultural and political-themed events.
At the festival’s opening ceremony, CCAT executive officer Lin Fang-ju (林芳如) said that previous editions of the event celebrated the life and contributions of the late Taiwanese publisher and democracy advocate Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕).
Deng founded the Freedom Era Weekly magazine and set himself on
Taiwan in Time: The ‘communist rebellion’ finally ends
The so-called ‘temporary provisions’ of 1948 that allowed the KMT to rule with an iron fist were meant to last for two years during the Chinese Civil War; they remained in place until May 1, 1991
By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
April 26 to May 2
Although the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) had essentially given up retaking China by the late 1960s, they continued to espouse the notion until former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) declared in a press conference on April 30, 1991: “We will no longer seek to unify China through force.”
Lee was announcing the repeal of the Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion (動員戡亂時期臨時條款, temporary provisions for short), which had allowed the government to rule with an iron fist for nearly 43 years without following the Constitution.