After the abolishment of the Committee for Promoting Transitional Justice in May this year, the office building located on Anhe Road in Taipei City will be used as the office of the "Foundation for Restoring the Rights of Victims of State Wrongful Behavior in the Era of Authoritarian Regime".

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[Reporter Chen Yufu/Taipei Report] The Executive Yuan set up a report to promote transformational justice, and the Premier of the Executive Yuan, Su Zhenchang, supervised the progress of the transformation.

According to reports, the "Rights Restoration Foundation for Victims of State Illegal Acts During the Authoritarian Rule", which is responsible for the return of property confiscated by political prisoners, is scheduled to be unveiled on December 10 this year, International Human Rights Day, and will officially start the application process for rights restoration next year. The government has allocated 100 in the early stage. billion in compensation.

After the abolishment of the Committee for Promoting Transitional Justice, the Human Rights and Transitional Justice Division of the Executive Yuan will oversee the business promotion of various ministries.

In 2012, the Ministry of the Interior included 42 million yuan in business expenses and 10 billion yuan in compensation in its official budget, and the subsidy rights were restored to the foundation to handle compensation.

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It is understood that the original transfer promotion office building was handed over to the Ministry of the Interior in August this year, and the Rights Restoration Foundation will continue to use the original transfer promotion office building. The Ministry of the Interior also submitted an application for 20.55 million yuan for the transfer promotion fund. Counseling foundation-related business.

Regarding the return of property confiscated by political prisoners, the official plan is that the Rights Restoration Foundation will begin accepting applications for compensation starting in January next year.

According to the data compiled by the transfer promotion association, there are 439 known land transactions and 39 buildings. The Ministry of the Interior estimates that 21 transactions are expected to be processed each quarter.

According to statistics, there are still 966 authoritative statues in public spaces across the country, and the competent authorities have already promoted and dealt with 133 of them. It is estimated that the progress of disposal will reach 3.4% of the total number of statues in March next year.

As for the Ministry of Culture, the Executive Yuan has notified that the application for free appropriation of the land of the unjust site "Ankang Reception Room" will be submitted to the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the New Taipei City Government for review.

According to the plan, the restoration and reuse project will be carried out in 2024, and the target is to be completed in March 2025 and open for inspection.

In addition, the Ministry of Culture plans to set up a "White Terror History Integrated Retrieval Platform", hold expert consultation meetings, and discuss the integration of relevant political archives, oral records, research plans, and folk historical materials based on 22,029 people involved in the transfer promotion political incident In the future, it will be presented with the record list information of the Human Rights Monument.

In terms of the Ministry of Justice, there are more than 2,100 compensation cases of the 228 Foundation that have not yet been processed under the transfer promotion, and have been listed as priority cases.

If there is a cumulative announcement to calm down a certain number of cases before February next year, another case will be discussed and merged into the central commemoration ceremony of the February 28 incident.

Members of the Council for Promoting Transitional Justice, the Executive Yuan, were interviewed and said that after the establishment of the Rights Restoration Foundation, it will start processing people's applications, mainly handling the return of confiscated property and compensation for political prisoners, because the legal provisions are very clear, and this is what the government must As for the transformation of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, which is of concern to the outside world, the relevant ministries and committees should also specifically promote it.