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Lawmakers pass DPP resolution to invite Dalai Lama

Thursday, 06 December 2012 09:24 Taipei Times

Despite the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ recent refusal to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama, the legislature’s Internal Administration Committee yesterday passed a resolution to invite the Tibetan spiritual leader to visit Taiwan.

“The Dalai Lama is a very respected religious leader. It harms Taiwan’s reputation as a democracy when we refuse to issue him a visa,” said Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁), who proposed the resolution. “I therefore suggest that the committee should adopt a resolution sincerely welcoming him.”

Taiwan’s human rights get thumbs-down in poll

Wednesday, 05 December 2012 08:41 Taipei Times

More than 40 percent of the respondents in an annual survey rated Taiwan’s overall performance in human rights protection this year as either “bad” or “very bad,” the Taipei-based Chinese Association for Human Rights said yesterday.

In terms of overall human rights protection, 27.7 percent of residents said Taiwan’s performance was bad, while 15.7 percent considered it to be very bad, the association said, citing the poll.

Only 4 percent of the respondents rated Taiwan’s overall human rights situation as “very good,” while 34.3 percent said it was “good” and 18.3 percent did not comment, according to the association.

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Draft amendments to allow people accused of spying for China to be indicted on foreign aggression charges and to allow political parties to be indicted on organized crime charges was approved yesterday by the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee.

Prosecutors have traditionally cited the National Security Act (國家安全法) when indicting alleged Chinese spies because the treason and foreign aggression offenses stipulated in the Criminal Code only apply to crimes committed on behalf of an “enemy state.”