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Taipei police ‘violating’ press freedom

Thursday, 08 May 2014 10:37 Taipei Times

Taipei Press Photographers’ Association chairman Chiou Rung-ji accuses police of removing journalists violently from recent anti-government protests during a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Representatives from media worker groups and academics yesterday accused the Taipei City Police Department of using excessive force against reporters in recent protests and trying to evade public scrutiny of what they described as police’s infringement of freedom of the press.

The violent eviction of reporters on March 24, when thousands of protesters occupied the Executive Yuan compound, and on April 28, during an overnight antinuclear sit-in on Zhongxiao W Road, violated the media’s right to report, the representatives told a press conference.

Police arrest student activist after protest

Tuesday, 06 May 2014 08:27 Taipei Times

Student protester Hung Chung-yen, center, is taken to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office by police yesterday after being taken to the Taipei City Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division for questioning.
Photo: CNA

National Taiwan University student Hung Chung-yen (洪崇晏) was arrested and handcuffed by police yesterday after he showed up for a protest in front of Zhongzheng First Precinct in Taipei.

Hung was taken to the Taipei City Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division and in the evening was sent to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office for further investigation.

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Following the demonstration outside its office on Friday, the Zhongzheng First Police Precinct yesterday said it resolved after a meeting that the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan (ART) would again be allowed to assemble on Jinan Road, as it has been doing for the past five years.

More than 1,000 people gathered outside the precinct office on Friday night to protest against Precinct Chief Fang Yang-ning (方仰寧) reneging on his pledge, made in the early hours of Friday morning, to not disperse protesters from the square outside the Legislative Yuan, the venue where the ART had organized talks during the occupation of Legislative Yuan and continued to do so after the Sunflower Movement’s exit on Thursday.