FAHR
Supports People Revolution by Taiwanese Rescue-Abian
Volunteers
Formosan Association for Human Rights (FAHR) supports
the people revolution by the Taiwanese Rescue-Abian Volunteers, led by Prof.
Tsay Ting-Kuei of Alliance of Referendum to Safe Guard Taiwan and Rev. Cheng
Kuo-Chung, pastor of Taiwan Justice Action Church. Since November 3, they have
started a 36-day march by foot around the Taiwan island, chanting the slogans of
"Save Taiwan, Save judicial System, and Save ABian".
The “Abian case” is
not an ordinary judicial case, but a political persecution through malicious and
premeditated acts. Over the last four years, this political persecution went
through stages of custody, sentencing, and imprisonment, mared by many illegal
judicial procedures, including extended custody without charges, illegal judge
replacement with someone willing to be a hitman for the govenment, and most
absurd of all, the only guilty verdict being based on perjury by a coerced
witness. With a close examination of the Abian case, one will find that it is
covered by the fingerprints of "judicial dictatorship", which aims at
suppressing political dissidents and has caused a serious setback to the
democratic development of Taiwan society.
FAHR has sponsored
international human rights organizations and activists this year to visit Taiwan
over the concern of President Chen’s human rights. They openly asked Ma
Ying-jeou to release President Chen on medical parole. We continue to call on
all brave and justice-minded Taiwanese to take action and occupy Ketagalan Blvd
to demonstrate people’s power and demand the abolishment of judicial
dictatorship and the release of President Chen Shui-Bian. We support the action
by the Taiwanese Rescue-Abian Volunteers and supporters to occupy Ketagalan
Blvd, starting December 8, and to take up non-violent disobedient actions
indefinitely to cultivate people’s will.
We support the following calls
of the Taiwanese Rescue-Abian Volunteers and supporters:
1. An immediate
release of President Chen Shui-Bian. 2. Resignation of Tseng Yung-fu and
Huang Shi-ming. 3. Replacing prosecutors of the Special Investigative
Unit. 4. Enacting the jury system.
