※ [本文转录自 B97310XXX 看板] 作者: xBenjaminx (xBenjaminx) 标题: [转录]Protest against Police Violence! Defend Civ … 时间: Fri Nov 7 16:00:44 2008 ※ [本文转录自 xBenjaminx 信箱] 作者: [email protected] ([email protected]) 标题: Protest against Police Violence! Defend Civ … 时间: Fri Nov 7 15:59:17 2008 作者: bj26bj (逼街) 看板: camduck 标题: Protest against Police Violence! Defend Civil Rights! 时间: Fri Nov 7 15:53:10 2008 Protest against Police Violence! Defend Civil Rights! Copywriter: the participants on sit-down demonstration On November 3rd 2008, a group of ARATS(Association of Relation Across the Taiwan Strait) delegates from China led by chairman Chen-Yunlin came to Taiwan in order to sign various treatise with the Taiwanese government. Meanwhile, all across the capital city of Taipei, in the name of “security for the delegates”, various peace rallies and protests have been violently oppressed by the police, acts such as indiscriminate questioning, physical coercion, confiscation and damaging of protest banners , forced expelling, forced imposition of undue restrictions, even arrests without judicial cause. Even more appalling is the fact that most civilians on the receiving end of such treatments are not protesters, but merely passerby lingering out of simple curiosity or those who want to record the event, and none of them came close enough to the delegates to even pose a security risk. As a result of such violations of civil rights, on November 6th, more than four hundred students and professors from various universities gathered at the front gate of the Executive Yuan, demanding an apology from President Ma Ying-Jeou and Chairman Liu Chao-Shiuan, the resignation of both the director of police agency and national security agency, and the immediate amendment of the Mass gathering and Demonstration act. The gathering began on the net, by a group of students and professors, with “ Protest against Police Violence! Defend Civil rights!” as their primary concern, gradually gathered momentum, and a gathering originally estimated at around 50 people grew to more than 400, with students all over the country, and professors Huang Hou-Ming of the NCCU Department of Sociology, Yeh Chi-Jeng of the NTU Department of Sociology, Huang Chen-Ling of the NTU The Graduate Institute of Journalism, Kuo Pei-Yi of Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Lan Pei-Chia of the NTU Department of Sociology, Fan Yun of the NTU Department of Sociology, Liu Hwa-Jen of the NTU Department of Sociology, Lee Ming-Tsung of the BTU Department of Sociology, Rwei-Ren Wu of Academia Sinica, Institute of Taiwan History, Huang Chen-Ling, NTU Graduate Institute of Journalism, Jieh-Min of NTHU Institute of Sociology, all pledged their support for this sit-down demonstration. All the major decisions in the gathering are made by group discussions and representative voting, implementing democracy on the scene. However the Executive Yuan, responding to the gathering, was only willing to send secondary advisors to meet the student representative. The students believed the administration lacked sincerity in resolving the situation, and decided to continue the sit-down demonstration through the night. On the morning of November 7th, Chief Secretary of the Executive Yuan Xue Siang-Chuang arrived at the scene. In response to the requests made by the students, the chief secretary stated that the voices are being heard, however the illegal acts must be punished, such as the current protests, and demand the students apply for the permission to gather under the current act, as for the request concerning amending the current demonstration act, the secretary responded by saying the act has been sent to the Legislative Yuan years ago awaiting the proceedings. The students was not satisfied and believed the chief secretary was evading the question concerning police violence and the act has been stalled in the proceeding since the change of administration. Since the secretary left the scene, the police had stepped up their warnings in preparation for a force expelling, however the students still believe in the original demand of an apology from President Ma Ying -Jeou and Chairman Liu Chao-Shiuan, the resignation of both the director of police agency and national security agency, and the immediate amendment of the Mass gathering and Demonstration act, and will find another place to continue the demonstration even if the force expelling takes place. Media Contact : Syu Jen-Shuo, Juan Chun-Ta 已发至各国际媒体 --

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