Taiwan Innocence Project

Taiwan Innocence Project (台灣冤獄平反協會) is a Taiwanese nonprofit organization that was formally established in 2012 and states that it has assisted 17 wrongfully convicted persons in obtaining exoneration. Its core mission is wrongful-conviction rescue: it accepts only cases of "actual innocence," focusing on flawed scientific evidence or serious violations of due process, and after review by a screening group it formally opens a case and forms a pro bono legal team. In Taiwan its rescue strategies are mainly applications for retrial and extraordinary appeal, supplemented by complaints to the Control Yuan and constitutional interpretation petitions. Beyond individual cases, the organization works on institutional reform and wrongful-conviction research, public advocacy and international networking, and care for the wrongfully convicted and their families.

Taiwan Innocence Project was formally established in 2012, initiated jointly by Professor Wang Jaw-Perng and attorneys Lo Ping-Cheng, Kao Yung-Cheng, and Yeh Chien-Ting. According to the organization, it has to date assisted 17 wrongfully convicted persons in obtaining exoneration. Its work is organized around wrongful-conviction rescue, institutional reform and wrongful-conviction research, public advocacy and international networking, and care for the wrongfully convicted. In 2015 it joined the international Innocence Network; in 2018, together with the Judicial Reform Foundation, the Japan Innocence Project, the Thailand Innocence Project, and Korean wrongful-conviction rescue activists, it signed the "Asian Innocence Declaration." On institutional reform, it lists as achievements the 2015 amendment of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the 2016 post-conviction DNA system reform, and the 2017 guidelines for prosecutors' review of final guilty judgments. In 2022 it submitted multiple cross-disciplinary expert opinions regarding the Lu Cheng case under the Supreme Prosecutors Office's review guidelines for controversial final death-penalty cases; on 2026/08/28 it issued a statement regretting the Supreme Prosecutors Office's conclusion that there was no new evidence for retrial, and the pro bono legal team stated it would assist the family in applying to the court for retrial.

A nonprofit organization whose core task is wrongful-conviction rescue, accepting only cases of "actual innocence" and focusing on flawed scientific evidence or serious due-process violations.

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