A seminar in Pasadena discussed the global significance of the Tai Ji Men case and the proposal of an International Day Against Judicial and Tax Persecution by State Power.
Alessandro Amicarelli
Persecuting Spiritual Leaders: The Tai Ji Men Case
After the World Teachers’ Day, scholars and human rights activists discuss the slandering and harassment of spiritual masters.
FECRIS, Russian Anti-Cultism Denounced at the OSCE
Speakers and a side event at Warsaw’s Human Dimension Conference denounced the discriminatory use of the word “cult.”
Political Charity and the Tai Ji Men Case
Good politics is a form of charity. Tax persecution is its contrary, a manifestation of political malevolence.
The Tai Ji Men Case Discussed at the Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting
Scholars argued that labels such as “cult,” “xie jiao,” or “religious fraud” have no real meaning and are used as tools for discrimination.
Sacred and/or Secret, Confession and Other Forms of Religious Secrecy: A Scholarly Discussion
At the European Sociological Association’ RN34 conference, a panel discussed contemporary criticism of secrecy in religion, from the Catholic Church to Scientology
Scholars Discuss Tai Ji Men’s “Road to Freedom”
On Nelson Mandela day, experts and Tai Ji Men dizi discussed freedom, transitional justice, and the fight for human rights.
A Seminar Takes the Tai Ji Men Case to Brussels
At the Press Club Brussels Europe scholars and activists denounced tax harassment and media slander against the Taiwan-based movement.
Does the World Know the Truth About the Tai Ji Men Case?
Two webinars on the U.N. Day for the Right to the Truth on Gross Human Rights Violation examined the respective role of slander and advocacy, and launched a new website about the Tai Ji Men case.
In Search of Justice for Tai Ji Men
Scholars and human rights activists celebrated the World Day of Social Justice and reflected on the Tai Ji Men case.
Alessandro Amicarelli
Alessandro Amicarelli is a member and director of Obaseki Solicitors Law Firm in London. He is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and a barrister of Italy, specializing in International and Human Rights Law and Immigration and Refugee Law. He has lectured extensively on human rights, and taught courses inter alia at Carlo Bo University in Urbino, Italy, and Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan (ROC). He is the current chairman and spokesperson of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (FOB).