Taiwan: Defending Rights to Protest  · Global Voices
I-fan Lin

Following David's article on “The Phantom of Police State” coming back with Chen Yun-lin (陳雲林)'s visit to Taiwan on 3 of Nov, I have collected some visual materials showing the conflict between the protesters and police with brief translation.
Since Nov 3rd, many protesters wearing pro-Taiwan T-shirt or banners or waving the ROC national flag have been harassed by the police, and some of them were wounded. To the extent that people playing Taiwanese songs (Sunrise records, 上揚唱片) were disrupted with force, and a cup of coffee became all too dangerous.
Manuscript translation:
Defending rights to protest
Facing these incidents, Carolina thought Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jeou should take the responsibility.
在滿街的旗幟被拔走，民眾持旗被沒收的錯愕中，馬英九今天還唬爛說他絕對沒有下令撤旗。
OJ is also very disappointed with the current government.
當我們看到我們的政府是這樣對待自己的人民，我們真的只能很心寒地覺悟了…那些好不容易爭取來的民主法制、人權價值，都被這個自我作賤的政府給徹底丟棄了。
However, citizens prepare to fight back, non-violently. Francais asked citizens to collect evidence if they see these incidents.
今年12月的國際人權日，亞裔人權團體將會在巴黎集體發聲，我們原本只是想要再次聲討中國對台灣的打壓，沒想到，自己的政府被打出獨裁專政原形，台灣正式列入人權受危害的國家。因此，我們想請大家集思廣益，提供馬政府上任後種種侵害人權的事件，我們會整理後在國際人權日的活動上，一起向國際媒體揭露。很遺憾，眼睜睜看台灣的沈淪，這卻是我們唯一可以做的；也請大家各自努力。