Part I ＞ Our Role and Responsibilities Mr. Lin was born in 1937 in Taipei, then under Japanese rule. In his interview with the NHRC members on September 1, 2021, he especially mentioned why he entered politics when he was young. As the child of a rice-mill owner, Mr. Lin often met the Songshan local government officials and policemen. He had the impression that the government officials then were highly corrupt and often took advantage of the illiteracy of his parents, so he began to criticize current events, which naturally led him to stand for election as a councilor. He said, My family ran a rice mill, and government officials (often) came to our home.... For example, they borrowed rice coupons without returning them. Because my parents were illiterate, subsidization officers even took advantage of this and stole rice coupons from us. Following the progress of Taiwan’s democratization, ...when I delivered rice to the police station...I often heard people screaming because they were being beaten and tortured.... So I hated the government [at that time]. This was the reason for my entering politics.6 案件補償條例 ), commonly called the Compensation political rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the 2/28 Incident were granted in 1995, then, in 1998, passage of the Compensation Act for Wrongful Trials on Charges of Sedition and Espionage during the Martial Law Period ( 戒嚴時期不當叛亂暨匪諜審判 Act for Wrongful Trials, allowed a start to be made in the political rehabilitation of victims of the White Terror. With the first transfer of power to a new Party In 1961 Mr. Lin was arrested as a “hooligan” in 2000, the authoritarian Party lost its hold on the City councilor. Accused of violating the Anti- Compensation Act for Wrongful Trials began. Rebellion ( 動員戡亂時期檢肅流氓條例 ) and the Act Mr. Lin filed a grievance based on the new 警罰法 ), he was directly transferred to the Third 20 years to win exoneration from his stigmatization immediately after he lost the election for Taipei Hooligan Ordinances for the Period of Communist Governing the Punishment of Police Offenses ( 違 Corps to undergo reformation for 20 months. From the surviving files and data held by the MOJ, we administration, and the second amendment of the amendment. However, it took Mr. Lin more than as a “hooligan” and from his being submitted to reform through labor for over 500 days. His could only find a brief note about Mr. Lin during previous attempts to seek political rehabilitation agencies acted unfairly.” He not only did not obtain legal means failed or were rejected, because the since his case was not submitted to judgment by wrongful judicial judgment and thus unable to virtually impossible until now. as in Mr Lin’s case. the elections: “Voicing remarks that government from the Taipei District Court and the TJC by any chance to defend himself that year, but also, aforementioned laws in practice were limited to any judicial procedure, rehabilitation has been handle extra-judicial administrative judgments such 6 24 ▋ Appellant: Mr. Lin Shui-chuan Verbatim record of Mr. Lin’s statement from the NHRC. National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report