Taiwan to set up law banning people from joining ISIS
ROC Central News Agency
2016/03/28 15:47:01
Taipei, March 28 (CNA) The National Security Bureau (NSB) said Monday that it will deliver to the Legislature during its current session a bill that bans Taiwan nationals from joining ISIS, which has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks around the world, including the one in Brussels last week that killed at least 30 people and wounded 230 others.
At a hearing of the legislative Foreign and National Defense Committee, NSB Director-General John Yang (楊國強) said that there is no "legal tool" in force in Taiwan that can be used to stop Taiwanese people from joining ISIS.
The bureau had tried to promote the formation of such a tool in the previous Legislative Yuan session, which, however, did not approve it before the end of its four-year term, Yang said, noting that they will do that again in the newly elected legislature.
Yang was answering questions from Kuomintang lawmaker Chiang Chi-chen (江啟臣) at the hearing on what Taiwan can do to prevent foreigners overseas from entering Taiwan to carry out terrorist activities.
Chiang asked if it is illegal for Taiwanese nationals to join ISIS. If not, how can the relevant authorities prevent terrorist attacks like those in Brussels from happening in Taiwan? he asked.
The lawmaker also said that under the existing law, which protects freedom of speech, people can spread words online supporting ISIS. He expressed hope that the relevant authorities can do something about this by revising the relevant regulations as soon as possible.
(By Lu Hsin-hui and Elizabeth Hsu)
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