Tsai Ing-wen presides over the Budha and Inauguration ceremony of the Committee for the Promotion of Transitional Justice on May 31, 2018. (Presidential Office/Wikimedia Commons)
After the Hong Kong police blocked the website of the Hong Kong Chronicle for the first Time in January, the website of the Commission for Transformative Justice (COTJ) under the Executive Yuan of Taiwan was unable to connect to the website, and it is suspected that the website was also blocked by the Hong Kong police.
Recently, a number of network providers in Hong Kong were unable to connect to the official website of Taiwan’s “Commission for Transformation Justice” with Hong Kong IP addresses, including Hong Kong Telecom, SmarTone, Hong Kong Broadband, Hong Kong Telecom and China Mobile. Some journalists were able to access the website by using a virtual private network (VPN) to connect through IP addresses in the United States, Australia and other places.
As for the Facebook page of the Association for the Promotion of Transfer, it can still be connected through Hong Kong network providers for the time being.
The Security Bureau reiterated in its response to media inquiries on Saturday (13) that it would not comment on speculation about police enforcement actions. As for the Police Public Relations Division, it only told reporters to “check with the Security Bureau”.
According to the information, the Taiwan Commission for Transformative Justice was established in May 2018 with nine members, who were nominated by the executive president and appointed with the consent of the Legislative Yuan. It is a second-tier independent organ under the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan. The council was established with five major purposes, including planning and promoting the opening of political archives; removing symbols of authoritarianism and preserving sites of injustice; vindicating judicial wrongdoing, restoring historical truth, and promoting social reconciliation; the handling and use of improper party assets, and other matters of transformational justice.
Many people in Taiwan have been imprisoned in the past for their speech or political orientation. In 2019, the Council for the Promotion of Transformation had revoked the list of criminal convictions, and revoked the rebellion convictions of the members of “Beautiful Island” magazine back then, such as former Vice President Lu Hsiu-lien, Presidential Secretary General Chen Ju and former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-de, to clear their names.
In addition, last month, the Hong Kong police invoked the National Security Law to ask ISPs to block the “Hong Kong Chronicle” website, which contains information on the anti-sending campaign, police abuses and personal data of police officers and officials.
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