For example, in a seminar sponsored by the Human Rights Education Foundation, many former political prisoners expressed their own mystification as to how academics can be so critical of Taiwan's current human rights record, when anyone can freely criticize the nation's leaders.
而這項報告在人權教育基金會舉辦的人權座談會上、看在不少過去受刑人的眼中，難免感到有些不解，為何在已經自由民主到人人都可以大罵或開國家元首玩笑的今日台灣，學者眼中的人權反而成了「慘不忍睹」？