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[Pow3hatan]

In the past few months there have been some revealing stories and editorials about the real state of justice in Taiwan. Whether you're a native Taiwanese or a foreign English teacher, actual due process and protection under the laws in Taiwan are very elusive for the common person. My long-running nursing university case is a real-life example of what almost anyone in Taiwan faces when entering the realm of Taiwan's judiciary and bureaucracy.

I've written more about this and included an editorial on What's Wrong With Justice in Taiwan? at http://pow3hatan.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/whats-wrong-with-justice-in-taiwan/

[Pow3hatan]

Last month I finally got something from the Taiwan High Court regarding the appeal my Taiwanese filed several months ago. In typical style, I got the court's decision on her appeal two months after it was rendered and through Taiwan's representative office here in Jakarta.

Not surprisingly, the High Court rejected the appeal. According to my friend, the court's main reasons for not accepting the appeal were that I have to have a "proper" attorney representing me or a Taiwanese relative or spouse in lieu of a lawyer. It's not what the court told me or my friend before she filed the appeal and I'm not aware of any law or regulation in Taiwan that supports the court's thinking.

Just another underhanded manipulation by the judiciary to deny another foreigner due process and vindication.

Read more and the court's decision here: http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/10/time-for-other-things-in-life-taiwans.html

[romanworld]

[Pow3hatan]

Romanworld: The best to your friend in his battle as the odds are way out of his favor. Chances are his case will either go a similar path as mine, or if he somehow manages to get favorable verdict afterwards he might end up the same way as Richard Canio - the school will just ignore the verdict and the court won't do anything further to enforce it.

What happened in my case and many others is symptomatic of a much wider and pervasive problem with the treatment of all levels of foreigners who come to Taiwan. Taiwan's authorities so often disregard foreigners' legal rights. Decisions are made in a vacuum - lacking common sense, decency, compassion or adherence to international principles of human rights.

You can read more about this at http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-even-marriage-family-escape.html and http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/10/foreigners-in-taiwan-beneath-law-and.html

[Pow3hatan]

Well...not only do they violate the human rights of those under their employ in Taiwan, but as the recent case of the Taiwanese diplomat arrested in the U.S. so vividly shows, apparently some can't resist the temptation to do it in other countries either.

Even more glaringly, the government's hypocrisy and double standards concerning matters of the law, due process and human rights were on full display throughout this case. Taiwanese officials disregarded the very serious charges against the diplomat of abusing her domestic worker and violating human trafficking laws as deftly as they ignored violations of my legal and human rights throughout my 4-year ordeal in Taiwan.

More about this at http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/11/hypocrisy-and-audacity-of-taiwans.html

[Pow3hatan]

It's hard to believe this coming June it will be 5 years since the nursing university nightmare began. It has been an abject lesson in how really perilous our work, careers and lives are when we go abroad to foreign lands, many of us with the best intentions and high hopes for a positive experience. When we leave behind the safety net of our own homeland and become a foreigner in someone else's land, we are really living life on a knife edge.

Since December last year my blogging has slowed for various reasons but I'm still moving ahead with telling this tale at the same places and recently started a third blog devoted to another aspect of this sordid tale. I've been archiving all the emails, court documents, letters, etc and preparing selected ones to share on my blogs in time.

You can check out some of the latest happenings at http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2012/01/time-for-renewal-and-coming-back-to.html

[JZer]

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