By far I'm not alone in suffering the legal and human rights abuses of an employer, the judiciary or the government in Taiwan. In the many years I spent off and on in Taiwan, I read and heard numerous tales of expats wrongly accused, taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers, robbed of their children by vengeful wives, hastily deported by authorities merely on the say of a jilted ex-GF...the cases stretch endlessly.
Reading anything substantive about what really happened is difficult as the Taiwan press only focus on sensationalizing anything they can about the allegations against the accused foreigner while ignoring any possibility that the accusation might be untrue and the real culprit a Taiwanese. Most often those accused are hustled out of the country without any course of counteraction or appeal, or they resolve themselves to their impossible situation and they leave Taiwan quietly.
In searching the internet for information on rights abuses in Taiwan, some time back I came across another blog by a American professor who has been fighting much longer than I - 12 years so far - against his own injustice inflicted by the National Cheng Kung University. In the introduction to his blog he states: "I formerly taught at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. I was illegally dismissed in 1999 and won an appeal at the Ministry of Education in Taipei in 2001, but the university refused to enforce that ruling for nearly 2 1/2 years. Since then the university has neither compensated me nor apologized for human rights abuses..."You can read more about his story at Human Rights at NCKU
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