Taoyuan prosecutors have indicted a Jhongli District (中壢) police officer for allegedly throwing a female music teacher to the ground and handcuffing her after she refused to submit to questioning.
The Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office had initially declined to press charges, but the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office ordered local authorities in December last year to conduct a second review after the music teacher, Chan Hui-ling (詹慧玲), filed an appeal.
On April 22 last year, a police officer, surnamed Yeh (葉), approached Chan as she was walking near Jhongli Railway Station and attempted to question her, asking her name, if she lived nearby
Staff writer, with CNATaoyuan prosecutors have indicted a Jhongli District （中壢） police officer for allegedly throwing a female music teacher to the ground and handcuffing her after she refused to submit to questioning.
Taoyuan, July 7 (CNA) Taoyuan prosecutors have indicted a Zhongli District police officer over a controversial incident last year in which he threw a female music teacher to the ground and then handcuffed her after she refused to submit to questioning.
An opera dealing with a resistance movement to Japanese occupation by Hakka-speaking Taiwanese in 1895 is striving for authenticity by using all languages involved Hakka, Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), Japanese and Paiwan, said Chen Sheng-fu (陳勝福), an opera director working with the Ming Hwa Yuan Arts and Culture Group.
The piece, titled Bu Yueh, Huo Shao (步月．火燒), is based on the true story of the “Liudui” Hakka self-defense alliance, Chen said.
It is to be staged in Pingtung City’s Millennial Park tomorrow, he added.
The four languages involved would give the audience a new perspective on the resistance movement, Chen
The Control Yuan has censured the police precinct in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢) after investigating the arrest of music teacher Chan Hui-ling (詹慧玲) in April last year.
Chan, who thought she was being stopped without cause, refused to answer a police officer’s questions and called the incident “really stupid.”
The police officer, surnamed Yeh (葉), handcuffed Chan and arrested her on suspicion of obstructing a public official.
Chan filed a report accusing the officer of infringing on her civil liberties and causing bodily harm.
The Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office closed the case in October last year without prosecuting either party, but Chan requested