Military injustice petition body needed
STOPPING ABUSE: The government should restore the Military Injustice Petitions Committee to protect and give justice to victims of military abuse, campaigners said
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Judicial reform advocates, including the Taiwan Jury Association, yesterday called on the government to restore a government body through which people could file complaints about military abuse and other injustices, saying that bullying incidents in the military have continued, with up to 20 cases reported each year.
Association chairman Jerry Cheng (鄭文龍) presided over a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday, along with attorney and former judge Chang Ching (張靜), and Yu Jui-min (尤瑞敏), the mother of air force staff sergeant Tsai Hsueh-liang (蔡學良).
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