Word: formosae
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...charges against the defendants stem from their association with Formosa, a now banned magazine that had called for representative elections, free speech and an end to martial law, which was imposed in 1948 as an anti-Communist measure. Moreover, Formosa had been sympathetic to the aspirations of native Taiwanese who desire a greater voice in the island's government, which has been dominated for three decades by mainland Chinese in the Kuomintang Party...
...Formosa was tolerated for several months by the authorities and even allowed to hold about a dozen indoor rallies in various cities across the island. But the magazine was banned in a sweeping crackdown against the opposition last December. The crunch came when Formosa 's leaders organized a rally in the city of Kaohsiung. The rally turned into the bloodiest riot in two decades; 183 policemen were reported injured...
Still, the prosecution's evidence at the trial appeared weak as it tried to prove that defendants, under the cover of Formosa, had intentionally provoked violence in Kaohsiung as part of a long-range plan to overthrow the government. Formosa 's publisher, Huang Hsin-chieh, 52, was specifically charged with attempting to smuggle $14,000 worth of baby eels from the mainland for the purpose of financing seditious activities. Huang denied being an eel trafficker, and convincingly argued that his only goal as Formosa 's publisher was to build a legitimate opposition party in Taiwan whose function...
...badly. Lu responded with a faint smile and said they had not, Gerrit van Derwees, U.S. coordinator for the ICDHRT, said earlier this week after talking with lawyers for the dissidents. As Lu met with her siblings, another prisoner, Lin Yi-hsiung, a lawyer and legal adviser to Formosa Magazine, told his mother that he had signed a confession involuntarily. Lin's mother later called a friend in Japan to describe her son's condition. Two hours after she made the call, she and Lin's two young daughters were found dead...
When the trial begins, it "will definitely be an open one" and those convicted will be punished on the basis of the evidence presented, not the public demands, a ranking KMT official said last month. The Taiwanese press has been running letters and articles accusing the "Formosa group" of "disrupting the stability of society" and demanding severe punishment...