Labor and human rights advocates are accusing the New Taipei City Police
Department of engaging in "reckless" behavior that disregarded people's right
to religion.

The statement comes after police entered the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic
Church in Shulin District late last month in pursuit of migrant workers.

Police the past weekend said three individuals entered the church after
officers tried to question them on suspicion they were members of a fraud
ring - and while one was arrested in a stairwell, the other two got away.

Police have now confirmed they arrested a Vietnamese migrant worker who had
left his employer, but who had nothing to do with a fraud ring.

According to the director of the Vietnamese Migrant and Immigrant Office of
the Catholic Church's Hsinchu Diocese, he the incident occured while he was
giving a sermon and without informing the church or gaining permission to
enter the building.

Peter Nguyen Van Hung is describing the police action as "reckless" behavior
that disregarded people's right to religion and he's calling
National Human Rights Commission and the National Police Agency to publicly
denounce the office's actions.