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來源:http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1148008
作者是nawiat，附上不專業翻譯請隨意取用

French Hotel Confined Guests to Ensure Smooth Meeting for Chinese Officials
in Taiwan
法國連鎖飯店限制房客自由以確保中國官員在台會議順利

On June 25 2014 9:30AM, managers of a French hotel chain Novotel in Taiwan
broke into the hotel room of human rights lawyer Lai Chung-Chiang and several
social activists by force and confined them in a room while cutting off the
electricity, water supply, and internet in the room. This was speculated to
ensure a much disputed meeting between top Taiwanese and Chinese officials
taking place later that day in the hotel would be held without disruption.



The incident immediately attracted attention on internet and hundreds of
comments have been left on the Novotel's social media page protesting the
apparent misconduct and breach of law of the hotel's managerial staff. Yet
the hotel remains that they broke into the room because some members of the
guests did not present their official ID at check-in and was out of a gesture
of care for the guests. As a clear violation of law, the group of guests is
considering a lawsuit against the hotel.



The incident began on June 25 at 1 AM, when human right lawyer Lai
Chung-Chiang and a few social activists checked in into two hotel rooms in
the Novotel Hotel in Taoyuan Airport, Taiwan. At 9:30AM in the morning, they
heard a shout of "room service" outside and were approached by hotel staffs
requesting them to leave the hotel because a few of the guests did not show
their ID at check-in. After they refused to leave and stated their right to
stay as the law protected, the hotel managers, including a French national,
broke in to the room by force and demanded the guests to leave. (see video)



>From 10 AM to noon Lawyer Lai along with other guests remained in the hotel
but were confined in one room. The hotel cut off the electricity, internet,
phone, and water supply of the room. At 2PM The group asked to order room
service. The hotel claimed room service was not available for the day, and no
drinking water can be provided. At the same time, they did not allow the
group to leave the room by own will.



At 4 PM The Novotel Taiwan posted a press release claiming breaking into the
hotel room was out of a care for the guests and was because some members of
the party broke the law by not showing ID at registration. Later the press
release was taken down from the website.
台灣諾富特於當日下午4點發出新聞稿，聲稱闖入房間是出於關心房客以及因為部分成員
未依規定登記身分。稍後網頁上的新聞稿被撤掉。


At 6 PM The group agreed to leave all together, but was rejected by the hotel
to take the elevator or the front entrance. Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters
gathered at the hotel door demanding an immediate permission for the group to
exit hotel by the front entrance.
下午6點一行人同意一起離開，但飯店方面不允許他們搭電梯或從前門離開。同一時間上
百位抗議者聚集飯店大門，要求立刻同意該行人從前門離開。


The whole incident was clearly tied to the highly controversial meeting
between Zhang Zhijun, the head of the Taiwan Affairs Office in China, and
Wang Yu-chi, the Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council in Taiwan, which
took place on June 25 at the Novotel Hotel Taoyuan Taiwan. The meeting has
been regarded as lack of transparency and without congressional approval,
heavily protested by pro-democracy activists in Taiwan.


To ensure the smooth proceeding of the meeting, the hotel took the action
they perceived necessary and casted the unwanted guests out, but also forever
cast a shadow on their reputation as a political lackey willing to sacrifice
their guests' legal right in the face of political pressure
為了保證會議可以順利進行，飯店採取了他們認為必要的措施並逐出不受歡迎的房客。但
在面對執政當局壓力時選擇犧牲顧客權益，其信譽將永遠蒙上陰影。

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文章下面有綠色圈圈寫This belongs on CNN，點這個(需註冊)可以讓這則報導有機會登上
正式新聞，讓更多人知道在馬英九執政下台灣人權被如何踐踏

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