The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld a lower court ruling sentencing former Chinese Unity Promotion Party chairman Lin Cheng-chieh (林正杰) to 30 days in prison for injuring a police officer in 2007 during a protest against former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).
Lin, then part of the “red army” that demanded the ouster of the former president, was charged with obstructing a police officer.
The police officer had been maintaining order while the former president toured a night market in Taipei in November 2007.
At the time, Lin and his associates held up protest banners and, from a small truck, blasted music that demanded Chen’s resignation.
A police officer who tried to turn off the car’s engine was injured by Lin when he hit him with an umbrella. Lin and his associates said they had mistaken the police officer, who was not in uniform.
Lin’s associates were not convicted because they did not harm the officer, but Lin was found guilty of causing injury to the officer.
The Shilin District Court handed down a guilty verdict, which Lin appealed to the high court.
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