Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge police arrested 11 Marxist organizers on the campus of the city's high school yesterday and charged them with trespassing, inciting to riot and a variety of other charges...
...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...
...publishing company it seems unlikely that the government curtailed its operation, especially since in was well-received by the public. Jablin's remark about "underground" opposition activities by Lu is cryptic if not misleading. Certainly she is not known to have engaged in any illegal ventures before the Kaohsiung riot. Jablin's portrayal of her as an anti-government revolutionary can be diluted by pointing out that she was appointed to the Commission on Laws and Regulations in the Executive Yuan (the Cabinet). She served as a specialist in charge of petition cases for four years until she left voluntarily...
Secondly, the account of the Kaohsiung riot in Jablin's article is seriously defective. For example, the police did in fact permit the rally celebrating International Human Rights Day to occur, contrary to Jablin's claim otherwise. However, the participants of the rally were not authorized to hold a march because it would have disrupted traffic in downtown Kaohsiung. When the demonstrators attempted to march, the riot broke out. The true course of events was quite different from that implied in the article. Most serious is a complete absence of mention about the rioters assaults on police, the most important...
Jablin's information is also incorrect in regard to the trial of the eight suspects accused of insurrection and other crimes connected with the riot. For example, it is stated that Lu Hsiu-lien and the seven others could be punished by death. Jablin does not mention that the prosecutor has requested that none of the defendants be sentenced to death if found guilty. According to the law, suspects can be held for 2 months before indictment, and this can be extended for up to 2 months more in exceptional circumstances. An extension of six days was granted...