tái wān台湾diào chá调查yì qǐ一起kuà jìng跨境bào lì暴力àn jiàn案件
Taiwanese prosecutors found during their investigation that a person from mainland China may have paid five Taiwanese people to collect personal information about a crosstalk performer and planned to injure him by hitting him with a car so that he could not perform on stage.
The performer had criticized Chinese leaders with jokes online and was later injured after being hit by a car near his home.
Prosecutors have charged the five people, believing that this was not an ordinary traffic accident but an attempt to use violence to silence a different opinion.
Taiwan's government strongly criticized this practice, saying that everyone has the freedom to express their opinions and should not be harmed because of what they say.
Taiwan's government also called on other democratic countries to pay attention to this kind of cross-border repression.
Human rights groups point out that such cases often have political motives, but existing laws may not always address them clearly.
Therefore, countries need to help the police and the public better understand this danger, prepare more appropriate laws, and strengthen cooperation to protect people's safety, freedom, and basic human rights.