Chilling bit from the CPI piece on the recent developments in Taiwan coming online later today, written by Paul Katz: "In addition to possible incidents of the state spying on its own citizens, there are also a growing number of accusations about intimidation by the authorities . In one instance, a female college student found out that police told her father that she is on a watch list normally used to monitor Taiwan’s most dangerous felons (治安顧慮人口). She has never committed a felony, but this might be due to her having been arrested at a protest following the Dapu demolition. Another female student who participated in the Dapu protests says that a police officer told her mother that she had been arrested and advised her to keep a closer eye on her daughter. The mother suffered a nervous breakdown, and the student no longer takes part in activities considered “provocative”. More recently, some DPP legislators have charged that hundreds of individuals who took part in anti-government protests have been subject to monitoring by the National Security Bureau (NSB, 國家安全局). The NSB promptly issued a brief press release denying the accusations, while the National Police Agency (NPA, 警政署) justified the visit to students’ homes part of efforts by police to reach out to the public through “direct communication” (熱線接觸), a term that harks back to the dark days of the Martial Law era."
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:58:42 +0000
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