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Amnesty condemns Sunflower charges

Amnesty International has strongly condemned Taiwanese authorities for bringing charges against 119 people in connection with the Sunflower protests last year.

“The right to demonstrate peacefully is a fundamental human right and all states have a positive obligation to facilitate this right in law and practice,” a statement released on Tuesday by the organization said.

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Prosecutors file charges against 118 Sunflowers


Participants in the Sunflower movement’s occupation of the Legislative Yuan’s main chamber are pictured on April 4 last year.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

Prosecutors yesterday filed charges against 118 people — including leading figures Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆), Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷), Dennis Wei (魏揚) and Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) — for their roles in the student-led Sunflower movement that occupied the main legislative chamber last year and subsequent rallies opposing what the protesters called the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government’s opaque handling of a trade-in-services pact with China.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang toast during a reception at the Great Hall of the People on the eve of the Oct. 1 National Day holiday in Beijing on Sept. 30.
Photo: AP

Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) might introduce a deadline for a resolution on Taiwan during the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China this month, according to former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) chairman Richard Bush.