Crosstalk actor Huang Yihao was injured in a car accident near his home in Yonghe District, New Taipei City in September this year.
I didn't expect that the case was not so simple. The whole thing turned out to be that a Chinese person spent 450,000 yuan to hire a murderer in Taiwan to "teach a lesson" to Taiwanese entertainers who used Xi Jinping as comedy jokes and criticized Chinese politics. After investigation, the New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office charged five people on October 21 on suspicion of attempted serious injury.
In December last year, comedian Huang Yihao uploaded a shorts video titled "It is better to humiliate the customs alone than to humiliate the customs of all" to criticize China's authoritarian politics and preview more related performances this year. As a result, on the eve of the performance at 7:30 pm on May 29, paint and feces were thrown at the Taipei Comedy Club "Kamidi" where the performance was performed! ! ! Then in September, Huang Yihao was scheduled to perform at "Cami" on September 20. A Chinese person nicknamed "K" allegedly paid a Taiwanese collaborator 450,000 yuan to collect information about Huang's daily routine, and then beat him until he was "severely injured and hospitalized" and unable to perform.
We must be more vigilant. China's "transnational repression" (cross-border terrorist acts) has long transcended China's national borders. When Vice President Xiao Meiqin visited Europe, China tried to hire someone to drive a car into a convoy and cause a car accident. Earlier this month, the inspection unit also confirmed that China sent people to follow and film legislator Shen Boyang for a long time, and monitored him 24 hours a day near his home.
If you have noticed, China has significantly expanded the targets of sanctions, controls, and harassment in recent years. The law clearly includes Taiwan’s high-level officials, active military personnel, and even law enforcement officers and ordinary civil servants as targets of sanctions. This means that if you are helping Taiwan independence, you are also helping Taiwan independence. Then China has further intervened in the administrative system of other countries in "third countries". Whether it is pressuring Taiwan's representative offices to close, labeling Taiwan as part of China, or even closing the airspace to prevent Chinese officials from visiting, these repressive measures have always been in place and are constantly escalating.
Nowadays, physical violence is becoming more and more common in Taiwan. It is not just about harassing Hong Kong people or the Tibetan community. It has also begun to target artists and performance venues in Taiwan. Their purpose is to create fear and create pressure for self-censorship. We must understand what China is doing and protect freedom together.
The New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office appeals: "Freedom of speech is the core value of a democratic and legal society. No one is allowed to suppress others because of their different political stance or speech, that is, by means of following others, illegally collecting personal information, violent harm, etc. If foreign forces use financial funding to direct domestic personnel to commit violent crimes, they will not only infringe on the basic rights of individuals, but may also endanger National security and social stability; (judicial authorities) will continue to strictly investigate major violent crimes involving foreign forces in accordance with the law, actively trace the behind-the-scenes commanders, financial flows and related criminal networks, safeguard the lives, physical safety and freedom of speech of the people, maintain our country's democratic legal order, and will never allow anyone to use violent means to suppress dissident voices. "
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