Several Chinese-language media outlets are facing possible lawsuits in the wake of the implosion of last week's sexual-harassment allegations against the acting Depart-ment of Health head Twu Shiing-jer (
Twu's lawyer Tsai Mao-sung (
"We are looking into what the media reported on and commented on about the issue over the past week. We plan to file both civil and criminal actions against those media organizations next week," Tsai said.
According to Tsai's comments, the United Daily News, Next magazine and TVBS' news program Night Club (
The United Daily News began reporting about the allegations against Twu on Wednesday, when it highlighted the report on its front page with the headline "Suspected licked someone's ear, Twu Shiing-jer broke scandal as bisexual."
Even though Twu declined to comment on the allegations, the paper devoted its entire page two that day to the alleged incident, accusing Twu of being involved.
At least eight TV reporters who covered the story for news talk shows, including Night Club and Star TV's News Hijacker (
Twu filed a libel suit against PFP Legislator Diane Lee (
Tsai said that several media organizations and some reporters would be added to the original lawsuit and the amount of compensation requested would be also
increased.
Article 195 of the Civil Code states that in the event of an injury to the body, health, reputation or liberty of another, the injured party may claim a reasonable monetary compensation for such damage as is not a purely pecuniary loss.
If reputation has been injured, the injured party may also claim the taking of proper measures for the rehabilitation of his or her reputation.
Article 310 of the Criminal Code states that a person who circulates a fact that injures the reputation with intent that it be communicated to the public, commits the offense of defamation. The article states that such an offense shall be punished with imprisonment of not more than one year, detention, or a fine of not more than NT$500.
Attorney Lin Feng-jeng (
"The media should take responsibility for what it reports and comments on. The court might warn against those TV shows' nonsense talks with civil punishment," Lin said.
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