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Wiretapping alarms
London-based group Liberty International
By Chris Wang / Staff reporter
An international alliance of political parties called for the government to
respect judicial independence and the three separations of powers in its
resolution, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said yesterday.
“Liberty International [LI] is alarmed at the recent revelations of widespread
wiretapping, carried out under flimsy legal pretexts by the Special
Investigation Division [SID] of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office on
parliamentarians in Taiwan, notably including the Speaker of Parliament, the
Opposition Whip and the Parliament’s central switchboard,” the DPP quoted the LI
press release issued yesterday as saying.
The London-based LI is a federation of more than 100 political parties around
the world.
In an executive committee meeting, held from Thursday to Saturday in Antigua,
Guatemala, LI passed a resolution calling for Taiwan’s government to respect
judicial independence and to refrain from interfering in ongoing investigations.
The resolution referred to recent political strife involving President Ma Ying-jeou
(馬英九) and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) for their alleged plot to remove
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平).
The organization urged the Ma administration against interfering with the proper
functioning of the legislative branch and to immediately undertake a
comprehensive review of the laws and regulations governing the use of
wiretapping, to “ensure that it is only used in accordance with internationally
accepted democratic principles.”
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