Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), KMT spokeswoman Yang Chih-yu (楊智?) and KMT Legislator Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) would be summoned by police for questioning for leading an illegal assembly on Thursday last week, Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) said yesterday.
The three party members had led an assembly outside the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office, an area where public assembly is not allowed, protesting the questioning of KMT staff in a recall petition forgery case.
Chu, Yang and Hsieh are suspected of contravening the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法), the Taipei Police Department said.
Photo: Fang Bin-chao, Taipei Times
Hsieh is also suspected of leading others to topple police-installed barricades, which constitutes an obstruction of official duties, police said.
Liu said the matter would be handled in accordance with the act.
Asked by the media whether the KMT Taipei City councilors who came forward and “confessed” to helping topple police barricades that day would also be summoned, Liu said that the main ringleaders, identified as Chu, Hsieh and Yang through police evidence, would be summoned first for questioning.
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