Innocence Movements: Taiwan - US-Asia Law Institute

Taiwan is on the forefront of the Innocence Movement in Asia. One of the leading organizations is the Taiwan Innocence Project (TIP) which was founded in ... About Mission People Opportunities Contact Work AboutourWork InternationalLaw&Relations LegalExchange Research JapanCenter NYUPrograms Events UpcomingEvents EventRecordings PastEvents TheGelattDialogue USALIPerspectives RecentArticles MissionStatement EditorialAdvisoryBoard HowtoSubmit VisitingScholarProgram News Support InnocenceMovementsinAsia China Taiwan Japan USALI Blog:InnocenceMovementsinAsia ReturntoMain InnocenceMovementsinAsiaTaiwanOverview TIP&friendsataconference.(OriginalSourceTIP) TaiwanisontheforefrontoftheInnocenceMovementinAsia.OneoftheleadingorganizationsistheTaiwanInnocenceProject(TIP)whichwasfoundedin2012toaddresstheissueofwrongfulconvictioninTaiwan.Theorganizationprovidesprobonolegalservicesforthewrongfullyconvicted,workstoredressthecausesofwrongfulconvictions,andsupportstheexoneratedaftertheyareproveninnocent.Theyalsourgeforreforminthecriminaljusticesystemandseekinstitutionalchangestopreventinnocentpeoplefromenteringaflawedlegalprocessinthefirstplace.ReadmoreaboutTIPontheirwebsite.TaiwanInnocenceProject&USALIRepresentativesfromTIPhavebeensupportersofourWrongfulConvictionsProgram.TheyhavechronicledtheirexperienceswithUSALIthroughvariouspublications,including:“West4thStreetDiaries,”(2017)and“ACanaryinaCoalMine”(2019).Youcanreadexceptsfromboththesepublicationsbelow. Read“ACanaryinaCoalMine” RecentInnocenceActivitiesinTaiwan May19,2020 HsiehChih-Hung'sexonerationonMay15(TaiwanInnocenceProject) May19,2020 TaiwanInnocenceProjectisexcitedtoshareagoodnewsthatonMay15,2020,ourclient,Mr.HsiehChih-Hung,whohadbeensentencedtodeathin2011andspent18yearsbehindbars,wasexonerated! May19,2020 Dec17,2020 EventRecording:TrendsintheInnocenceMovementinAsiaandtheU.S. Dec17,2020 Pleasejoinusforadiscussionofrecentdevelopmentsin"Innocence"workinAsiaandtheUnitedStates.ExpertsfromChina,Japan,TaiwanandtheU.S.willdiscusssignificanttrendsinexoneratingtheinnocentwithspecialpanelsfocusingontheexclusionofjunksciencefromevidenceandthepositiveandnegativerolesplayedbyprosecutors,thatis,sometimessupportingexonerationsandcontributingtowrongfulconvictions. Dec17,2020 Apr9,2020 [EventRecap&Videos]PreventingMiscarriagesofJusticeinAsia Apr9,2020 OnApril1,2020.SeniorResearchFellowIraBelkinandUSALIstaffAllenClayton-Greene,AmyGao,YinChi,andEliBlood-PattersonintroducetheU.S.-AsiaLawInstitute's(USALI)program:"PreventingandRedressingWrongfulConvictions."Throughthisprogram,internationalexperts,includingindividualswhothemselveshadbeenwrongfullyconvictedandlaterexonerated,sharedtheirexperienceandstate-of-the-artexpertisewiththeAsiancriminaljusticecommunityconcerningtherootcausesofwrongfulconvictionsandmeasuresthatcanbeadoptedtopreventthemandredressthem. Apr9,2020 Nov12,2019 AnnouncingtheInnocenceFilmFestivalfromTaiwanInnocenceProject Nov12,2019 Tospreadawarenessoftheproblemofwrongfulconvictions,theTaiwanInnocenceProjectwillbehostingitsfirst“InnocenceFilmFestival”fromDecember11throughDecember15,2019inTaipei,Taiwan,featuring18domesticandforeigndocumentaryandfact-baseddramasthatdepictmiscarriagesofjusticeinTaiwan,theUnitedStates,Japan,Iceland,thePhilippinesandothercountries.Seethetrailerandposterbelow.Moredetailswillbemadepublicsoon. Nov12,2019 Nov10,2019 ACanaryinaCoalMine｜礦井中的金絲雀——記紐約大學冤案實習計畫 Nov10,2019 OurfriendsatTaiwanInnocenceProjectrecentlysharedwiththeirfollowersabouttheirexperiencesattheU.S.-AsiaLawInstitute’sWrongfulConvictionProgram.Readatranslationoftheirnewsletter. Nov10,2019