Five Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators yesterday filed a lawsuit against three high-ranking police officers, accusing them of infringing on their civil liberties during protests against Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin’s (陳雲林) visit this month.
Chai Trong-rong (蔡同榮), Wang Sing-nan (王幸男), William Lai (賴清德), Yeh Yi-ching (葉宜津) and Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) filed their lawsuit at the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday morning.
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They also handed in a DVD in support of their lawsuit that they said showed clips of the alleged offenses.
The three officers named in the lawsuit are National Police Agency Director-General Wang Cho-chiun (王卓鈞), Taipei City Police Department Director Hung Sheng-kun and Songshan Precinct Chief Huang Chia-lu (黃嘉祿).
Chen Ting-fei said she was having afternoon tea with friends at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei hotel on Nov. 5 when police surrounded her as she tried to leave the building.
Chen Ting-fei said she repeatedly asked the officers what the problem was, but that they only told her they “were told to enforce the law.”
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During the same incident, Chai said he tried to tell Chen Yunlin that “Taiwan and China are two different countries,” but the police used excessive force to stop him. Chai said he was bleeding afterward from scratches.
“We wholly oppose violent protests, but we are also against violence by police officers who act like loose cannons,” Wang said.
The three police officers declined to comment on the suit filed against them.
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