Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Taiwan's Legislature on Tuesday approved a bill to grant the relatives of political dissidents killed by the authorities during the authoritarian era NT$12 million (US$405,227) in compensation, doubling the amount they were previously allowed to claim.
The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed the third reading of an amendment to the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例), which would ask the Executive Yuan to launch a task force after the Transitional Justice Commission is dissolved.
The commission is to be dissolved after completing its designated tasks by the end of this month and submitting its summary report to the Cabinet.
The legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee passed the first review of the proposed amendment on March 28, but discarded some articles after cross-party negotiations reached a consensus.
The proposed law would assign the premier as task force convenor
Taipei, May 5 (CNA) The Cabinet on Thursday unveiled Taiwan's first-ever national human rights action plan, which it says will prioritize issues such as transitional justice and a review of the country's refugee policies over the next two years.
When Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) last month suggested that Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall be renamed the “Taiwan development memorial hall,” the idea did not emerge out of a vacuum.
The hall, which commemorates Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) of the KMT, is a symbol that the party faithful would not want to see desecrated. Although Chiang Wan-an’s idea was largely ignored at the time, he was trying to put the party in the driving seat of a process that is going to happen anyway. The Transitional Justice Commission on Sept. 28 last year announced its intention to transform the
Transitional Justice Commission Chairwoman Yeh Hung-ling, center, speaks at an event titled “Tomorrow’s Garden” at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei yesterday. A Lego model shows a reimagined Chang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and surrounding gardens.