Foreigners in Taiwan: Beneath the Law and Human Rights

  For white-collar professionals like myself, Taiwan is already a very scary place when it comes to matters of Rule of Law, due process, human rights and human dignity when attempting to seek justice as a victim of a crime or defend oneself from false allegations perpetrated by a Taiwanese. For migrant workers such as domestic helpers and assemblers in factories, many in reality treated as "slaves", Taiwan's authorities and the judiciary are even harsher in denying even the most basic of legal and human rights to those accused of wrongdoing or who are merely witnesses detained to aid in an investigation. 
  What has happened in my 4-year legal and human rights nightmare is symptomatic of a much wider and pervasive problem with the treatment of all levels of foreigners who toil in the island's schools as teachers, in various business, academic and social welfare entities, and in the homes and factories throughout Taiwan.
  I'll write more in-depth about this in a later post. For now, here are two illuminating articles on just how Taiwan's authorities and judiciary continually violate the legal and human rights of those working in Taiwan:


Foreigners Being Unfairly Detained, Rights Groups Say

Foreigners Have Human Rights Too

02/09/12 Update: I've started a new blog entitled Giving Up a Life's Worth of Music, Movies and More For My Kids' Future
 

The Email That Started This Nightmare & Illegally Exposed My Name

  Another of the chief culprits in this conspiracy and fraud is Dr. Shiow-luan Tsai (主任 蔡秀鸞 教授), a professor and dean of the nursing department at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (國立臺北護理健康大學). I had already been alerted by another of the Taiwanese faculty a few months earlier of Dr. Tsai's efforts to force me out of the school by the end of the 2007 academic year, but the professor assured me that the she and other faculty members had defeated Dr. Tsai's attempts and my job was safe. Well...it was until almost the end of the semester!
  This email includes a copy of Alice Yang's statement to her school mentor about what she alleged happened on June 4, 2007, and is the first of many versions of her story.

                                                         The Email