On June 11 last year, when a Puren Precinct female police officer from Taoyuan County Police Bureau’s Jhongli Township surnamed Liu pulled over a car to see if the driver had been drinking, a man surnamed Hong who was sitting in the passenger seat took out his mobile phone and turned on the flash to film her. After Liu reprimanded him, saying the light was hurting her eyes, Hong replied that her looks were hurting his eyes. Hong was subsequently sentenced to 55 days in jail and given a fine of NT$55,000 for what he said.
Hong was suspected of obstructing a public official, and the Taoyuan District Court’s small claims court sentenced him to 55 days in jail at the end of October last year. Hong did not accept the ruling and filed an appeal, but the judge thought Hong’s statement was clearly a case of ad hominem and rejected the appeal on March 29.
(Liberty Times, Translated by Kyle Jeffcoat)
桃園分局普仁派出所柳姓女警去年六月十一日攔查酒駕,坐在副駕駛座的姓洪男子拿手機打閃光燈拍攝她,女警斥「刺眼」,洪回話「妳的長相才讓我覺得刺眼吧!」他因為這句話被判罰五十五天拘役,得易科罰金新台幣五萬五千元。
Photo: Huang Liang-chieh, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報記者黃良傑
洪男因涉嫌妨害公務,去年十月底,被桃園地方法院簡易庭判處五十五天拘役,他不服上訴,但法官認為洪男的言詞明顯是人身攻擊,三月二十九日駁回上訴。
(自由時報記者周敏鴻)
Photo: Lin hsin-han, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報林欣漢
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