2025.03.25 Save Taiwan: A 911 Call for Defending Dr. Ko’s Justice | Democracy Under Threat: Political Maneuvering in Taiwan's Legislative and Judicial Systems

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Save Taiwan: A 911 Call for Defending Dr. Ko’s Justice

Democracy Under Threat: Political Maneuvering in Taiwan's Legislative and Judicial Systems

                                                                                              

Mar 25,2025                                                            H Tsao-Petition Starter

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The image you see is not from a movie—it is Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, where the parliament chairman was physically surrounded and blocked by ruling party lawmakers, preventing him from presiding over a session. The chairman’s seat was forcibly occupied, and the meeting was shut down.This political involvement reflects a concerning departure from parliamentary procedure and democratic norms.

In a separate courtroom development, Ko Wen-je revealed that a prosecutor had threatened him with a so-called personal material. Ko clearly stated that he has no personal videos or photos, and emphasized that any personal-related content is irrelevant to the subject case.

Rather than investigating the prosecutor’s conduct, the system responded by allowing the prosecutor to request a formal investigation into the material itself, a move seen as an attempt to justify the threat instead of addressing misconduct.

These incidents—physical obstruction of the legislature and prosecutorial intimidation in the courtroom—reflect a disturbing pattern in which democratic norms are suppressed and institutions manipulated to silence opposition and concentrate power.

Taiwan lacks an independent oversight mechanism for prosecutorial misconduct, and the legislative process itself is now facing aggressive disruption by those in power, particularly members aligned with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)—threatening the institutional balance and undermining the rule of law.

After 7 months of pre-trial detention with no solid evidence presented, the Taipei District Court is scheduled to rule by April 1 whether to further extend the detention of Ko Wen-je and three other defendants, all of whom have pleaded not guilty.

This is not just a political case—it is a warning sign that democratic backsliding and unchecked power are putting Taiwan’s core values and institutions at risk under Lai Ching-Te’s administration. 

民主亮紅燈：台灣立法與司法體系的政治權力介入危機

您所看到的畫面並非電影劇照，而是來自台灣立法院的真實現場。立法院長被執政黨立委團團包圍並阻擋主持議事，主席台遭強行佔領，議事程序被迫中止。此舉公然破壞議事規則與民主制度的基本原則，令人震驚。

另一邊，在司法體系中，柯文哲在法庭上指出，檢察官曾以一些所謂的不雅私人資料對他進行威脅。柯明確表示，他並無任何不雅資料，並強調與個人相關的資訊與案無任何關聯，根本不應成為訴訟的一部分。

然而，司法體系未對檢察官的行為展開調查，反而檢察官主動要求勘驗私人檔案，此舉被視為是轉移焦點、合理化威脅行為的手段。

無論是在國會中的暴力阻斷，還是在法院中的恐嚇手段，這些事件揭示出台灣政治體系中打壓異己、操控程序、破壞制度制衡的嚴重問題。

台灣至今仍缺乏獨立機制調查檢察官濫權行為，如今連立法程序也遭到政治干預與癱瘓，顯示台灣制度正面臨失衡與危機。

在柯文哲與其他三位被告遭羈押逾七個月、法庭上始終未提出有力證據的情況下，台北地方法院預計於4月1日之前裁定是否延長羈押，所有被告均已堅決否認犯罪指控。

這不再只是單一案件的問題，而是在賴清德執政下台灣民主制度是否能抵擋權力失控與制度倒退的重大考驗。

Source(來源)：https://www.change.org/p/save-taiwan-a-911-call-for-defending-dr-ko-s-justice/u/33366818

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