also necessary to expressly define how the appeal should be sent from the prison/detention center, how it is accepted or registered, and when it is sent, accepted or registered, in order to set forth a standard procedure. 109. The correctional institution should record and report the time of receipt of any appeal sent by a defendant under detention to the court, and deliver the appeal promptly. As no additional formalities are required, the relevant person in charge should not reject receipt of the appeal, return the appeal, or ask for corrections, e.g. with the excuse that the defendant’s service of the appeal is defective procedurally, or by alleging that the defendant’s appeal fails to satisfy any legal requirements, or is not permitted pursuant to laws, or the defendant forfeits his right to file an appeal. Judicial Protection of the Socially Disadvantaged and Minorities 110. Article 30 of the Indigenous Peoples Basic Law (IPBL) stipulates that the government respect the tribal languages, traditional customs, cultures and values of indigenous peoples when dealing with indigenous affairs, making laws or implementing judicial and administrative remedial procedures, notarization, mediation, arbitration or any other similar procedure for the purpose of protecting the lawful rights of indigenous peoples. Despite this stipulation, under current judicial practices, the prosecutor, police, or even a defense attorney legally appointed by the Legal Aid Foundation, all cannot voluntarily provide substantial and effective assistance and defense in a legal action against weapons possession, for a defendant who is an indigenous person, despite the provision that an indigenous defendant may be exempted from criminal punishment if the self-made harpoon guns are used as tools for making a living, as referred to in Article 20 of the Act Controlling Guns, Ammunition and Knives. This actual situation demonstrates that our nation’s judicial practices generally fail to recognize the regulatory intent of the Constitution, the IPBL and the International Human Rights Covenants that mandate respect for the indigenous peoples’ traditional customs and cultures, or the significance of a modern democratic country ruled by law while upholding decriminalization of its indigenous peoples’ practice of hunting. Instead, the courts just increase the felony punishment of persons other than indigenous peoples who are found with guns, easily punished as a serious offense according to Article 8 of the same Act, thus continuing to arouse resentment and engender rifts in ethnic relations. Therefore, these regulations must be discussed and improved upon promptly. 111. In line with Paragraph 1, Article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter referred to as the “CRPD”), the Ministry of Justice and Judicial Yuan should provide an optimal legal procedural protection mechanism and carefully review whether discrimination against people with dementia exists during the investigation and trial of a criminal 47