4 indicted over vandalism of Japanese-era statues in Taipei

Four pro-China activists were on Tuesday charged with acts of vandalism against a pair of komainu or lion-dog statues dating back to the Japanese colonial period.The Shi-Lin District Prosecutors Office said in a statement that Lee Cheng-lung, a member of the China Unification Promotion Party which promotes the unification of Taiwan and China, and three other members of the party were each indicted on one count of criminal property damage in connection with two separate attacks on the statues, located at the entrance to an elementary school in the capital's Beitou district.Lee and a female a…READ FULL ARTICLE