Human rights groups yesterday called on lawmakers to approve a draft bill that would ban torture and other forms of inhumane punishment.
The call came ahead of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture tomorrow.
Covenants Watch convener Huang Song-lih (黃嵩立) said that torture and other forms of cruelty are used by some government officials during interrogations of suspects and convicts.
“As Taiwan has ratified UN human rights covenants, our government has an obligation to prohibit torture and cruel treatment that inflicts pain,” he said.
Huang urged lawmakers to approve the draft bill, which would ban all forms of torture by government agencies
During a discouraging, if not desperate, long night in 2014, a large number of citizens stood up to oppose the illegitimate legislative process of a proposed cross-strait service trade agreement, yet the peaceful protest and the exercise of free speech were met with a violent police response.
When the charges against seven protesters were dropped on Oct. 8, it marked the end of a nearly seven-year-long legal battle over the storming of the Executive Yuan during the 2014 Sunflower movement.
Upon taking office in 2016, President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration withdrew all charges of criminal offenses that are indictable only upon
The Executive Yuan on Sept. 2 approved draft amendments to the State Compensation Act (國家賠償法) that have evoked some controversy in the legal community. Article 13 of the act, which was enacted in 1981, has long been criticized for being unenforceable.
“If an employee of the government having the duty of a trial judge or a prosecutor infringes upon the freedoms or rights of persons while acting within the scope of his or her office or employment, and is adjudicated to have committed a crime when he or she performed the duty of trial or prosecution, the provisions of this
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