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No.1 "Taiwan prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-9-3, 2024-7-14, 2024-4-19, 2023-12-4, 2023-11-21, 2023-7-17, 2023-5-28;

  No.1 "Taiwan's prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-9-3, 2022-1-12, 2021-9-1 pic. : No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, 2024-9-3, 2024-4-19, 2023-12-4, 2023-5-28, 2023-4-15, 11-20-2020, 9-5-2020

 

 

 War On The Rocks (2024-9-20): Washington is quietly watching how Taiwan's new president Lai consolidates power, using the court to prosecute former vice premier Cheng Wen-tsan over corruption allegations.  Cheng's arrest reflects an intra-party political struggle between a pair of long-time rivals.  The arrest and detention of Taiwan People's Party chairman and former Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je on corruption charges, as well as a number of corruption cases involving Kuomintang (KMT) officials have Lai's critics protesting that he is using the judiciary to persecute rivals.  Washington observers might worry that Lai is undermining the independence of the judicial system...

 

"extreme oppression, mistreatment and abuse"  by prosecutors

 

 Financial Times (UK), 2024-9-6: Prosecutors' swift moves against Cheng (former premier 鄭文燦) and Ko Wen-je (Chairman of TPP) have prompted Taiwanese commentators to question whether president Lai was “cleaning house” of political rivals or pushing an anti-corruption crackdown to win back public support (divert attention from the current chaos in domestic politics.). an official at the Judicial Yuan said investigators typically sounded out their superiors before proceeding with big cases, especially those involving vested interests or politicians. “In a case like this, a signal would have been given from above before they go and detain him" ft.com/content/65c8f0f5-de31-4f10-89cb-b2f5acfddc2b

After being released by the court at 2024-9-2, TPP founder & chairperson Ko Wen-je told reporters he experienced "extreme oppression, mistreatment and abuse" (「極盡壓迫跟凌虐」) by prosecutors during two days' detention in graft probe....

Council on Foreign Relations, 2024-9-3: Ko Wen-je
──accuses the government of attempting to “suppress” its opponents and the press and judiciary of “being the government’s political tools.”

Asia Nikkei (Japan), 2024-9-5:
Ko Wen-je accuses government of witch hunt ... and launched broadsides against the legal system and the press, accusing them of doing the bidding of President Lai Ching-te's Democratic Progressive Party..."the judiciary and the media being the government's political tools" (
the KMT's most powerful lawmaker, that most legal professionals only listen to the DPP)

The Diplomat, 2024-9-3:
The TPP increasingly began leaning into the narrative that Ko's arrest was a form of political persecution...
TaiwanPlus News, 2024-9-3:
 video  msn.com/en-us/news/world/ko-wen-je-released-as-corruption-probe-continues-taiwanplus-news/vi-AA1pQxJ5?ocid=BingNewsVerp
cti-news video, 2024-9-3 :
Taiwan using state machine on me (政府動用"國家機器"!)  Ko Wen-je: today's judiciary and media are tools for politics and ruling the country
不是) youtube.com/watch?v=vSpc6xmIHmo
Mainichi (Japan), 2024-8-31
Ko said it is the first time in Taiwan's history that the home and office of a major opposition party leader, as well as a party headquarters, have been searched. He called for authorities to explain what evidence they have to take such action
US News & World Report, 2024-9-1
The TPP and KMT joined forces this year to push through reforms to give parliament greater oversight power that prompted mass protests. Those reforms, opposed by President Lai Ching-te's DPP, are being reviewed by Taiwan's constitutional court. 
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DN (Taiwan), 2024-9-11
The situation that the prosecutors violate "The Secrecy of Criminal Investigation" (偵查不公開) has been from bad to worse, and no any prosecutors were  charged for this.   Taiwan has become party-prosecution-media-politics complex (「黨檢媒的政治複合體」), that's main reason why the public lost trust on the judiciary for a long time. 
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DN (Taiwan), 2024-9-11
politics to intervene the judiciary! even use the judiciary as a tool to attack political opponents and expand power.  Is it the right way to govern the country by using the judiciary to promote hatred and intensify social antagonism 

 

 Taiwan detains former vice premier from ruling party in corruption probe

Bloomberg, 2024-7-12  A court ordered Cheng Wen-tsan detained while he is investigated for corruption, the latest development in the highest-profile graft probe in the democratically run archipelago since President Chen Shui-bian in 2008.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-detains-former-vice-premier-011805411.html
Radio Taiwan International, 2024-7-12 Prosecutors are accusing Cheng of accepting bribes, leaking information, and laundering money, among several other crimes.  Cheng has strong political and business connections, and concerns were raised about potential collusion...
TaiwanPlus, 2024-7-12 Taiwan's former Vice Premier is behind bars after prosecutors persuaded a court that he could use his connections to interfere in his investigation into alleged bribery
United Daily, 2024-7-12 Cheng took bribes 7 years ago, for the past years, they can always grasp the situation of the secret investigation.   How does the state machine protect him ?
Taiwan's corruption is a serious issue -  United Daily (2024-7-10): The other factions and the opposition should get very jumpy or anxiety about something that is going to happen.

USA Country Reports on Human Rights Practices  - Taiwan , 2024-4-22  Some political commentators and academics, however, publicly questioned the impartiality of judges and prosecutors involved in high profile, politically sensitive cases.
TIME, 2023-11-20  the government's judicial reform website hasn't been updated since 2020. “Does that mean the government didn't do anything or just doesn't care about this topic?” asked the spokesman for a lawyer's group pointedly.  time.com/6336441/taiwan-presidental-election-william-lai-profile/
TaiwanPlus, 2023-3-6 Taiwan Poll Finds Widespread Public Mistrust of Prosecutors /  msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/taiwan-poll-finds-widespread-public-mistrust-of-prosecutors-taiwanplus-news/vi-AA18glWE
National ChungCheng University (ccu.edu),   2023-2-13 study found the percentage of Taiwanese trust in the judges is 32.8%.
China Times, 2023-7-30 Taiwan vice president Lai Ching-te says there is a long long way to go before the legal reform satisfying the public.  In 2019, Mr. Lai said the legal reform will be half way done if we can eliminate rotten and illegal judges and prosecutors.  chinatimes.com/opinion/20230730002752-262101?chdtv
  United Daily, 2023-7-17 Tens of thousands joined a protest in Taipei, their main demand was to express dissatisfaction with judiciary and housing price. the KMT's Hou You-yi says judicial reform is an empty shell, Terry Guo says both policy are "bad checks", Dr. Ko Wen-je of Taiwan People's Party says the public do not trust our legal system.  udn.com/news/story/123619/7304940?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub123619_pulldownmenu_v2
   United Daily  (聯合報), 2023-11-18
 The very serious "abnormal" relationship between the police and the prosecution was exposed recently.  The systems of judiciary, prosecution and police are rotten from the roots.udn.com/news/story/7338/7582230?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2
  China Times, 2023-7-31 the public repeatedly question the prosecutors take politics into considerations to conclude legal cases. chinatimes.com/opinion/20230731004404-262101?chdtv  brief
  United Daily, 2023-7-18 Many judgments or conclusions follow directions from the ruling party  udn.com/news/story/7338/7307107?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2
United Daily, 2023-12-4

In the prosecution & investigation gov., promotion by political loyalty (政治掛帥的封官圖) has already badly damaged our national civil service system (文官體制)

  United Daily , editorial , 2023-8-21 Taiwan's judiciary is inactive in major cases, but gives heavy penalties to minor cases /  The public's long-standing mistrust of the judiciary lies in wanton abuses of enforcement power, very doubtful measurements of penalties or unclear standards by the prosecutor/judges, too light or too heavy of the judgments; e.g., the prosecutors did nothing to a NT$  billions suspected cases - HsinChu City Baseball Court, but gave 12-years sentence to a NT$8000 case.   udn.com/news/story/7338/7382647?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_cate
  United Daily, editorial, 2023-5-28

Take a lesson from S. Korea ! their judiciary dares to strictly investigate and severely punish presidents.  The only solution to avoid a rotten Taiwan is an independent prosecutor system  udn.com/news/story/7338/7195377?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

  United Daily,  2023-7-9 Taipei City Councilor: Taiwanese people don't trust the prosecutor system in recent years  udn.com/news/story/6656/7288637?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub6656_pulldownmenu_v2
 China Times, editorial , 2023-4-10 an anti-corruption union is what Taiwan needs, KMT earns public trust on anti-corruption issue?  ...The vaccine procurement case involving huge profits is full of doubts, but the prosecutors and investigation gov. don't even touch it !  chinatimes.com/opinion/20230410004586-262101?chdtv
  United Daily, 2023-4-1 Taiwan judiciary suppresses the opposition, lets go the ruling party (打壓在野黨 輕縱執政黨 司法想當鷹犬?)  udn.com/news/story/11091/7072002?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2
  United Daily, 2023-4-23 Taipei chief prosecutor steps down for low degree of adaptability (on HsinChu city mayor Ann Kao's case), disappointing the top rankingSome other prosecutors did good job on major political cases got promotion.  udn.com/news/story/7338/7116838?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2

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pic. :  No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-9-3, 2024-4-19, 2023-12-4, 2023-5-28,
2022-3-24,
 2021-9-13, 2021-4-18,
11-20-2020, 2-28-2018;  

 

pic.: No.1 "Taiwan prosecutors"
on Bing, 2023-7-17, 2023-5-28, 2023-4-15

 

 

 

   

"Taiwan prosecutors" ranks No.1 on Yandex , 2024-9-22  (Chinese version); "comment Taiwan judiciary" ranks No.1 on Yandex, 2024-9-22  (Chinese version)

 

 

 

 US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released at 2022-4-12 (state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/taiwan/):
nthe Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Yuan referred six officials to the Control Yuan for criminal investigation, including former minister of justice Tseng Yung-fu, former prosecutor general Wu Ying-chao, and two others for investigation of noncriminal misconduct, including Supreme Administrative Court judge..., the Judicial Yuan referred six former judges to the Control Yuan for investigation of noncriminal misconduct.  the Ministry of Justice investigated 77 other incumbent and former judicial and law enforcement officials implicated in similar behavior with the same businessperson.
na senior investigator of the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau was indicted for corruption for allegedly profiting from the sale of narcotics worth more than 168 million New Taiwan dollars ($5.6 million) seized in law enforcement investigations over eight years.

 

  United Daily , editorial , 2023-5-24 : KMT law maker pointed out officer(s) of Taiwan's FBI (investigation gov. 調查局) invested NT$ 13 million on im.B fraud platform, a "star" level prosecutor was also entertained by fraud group.  udn.com/news/story/123523/7188786?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub123523_pulldownmenu_v2