"Dennis Peng, a Taiwanese newsman living in self-exile in California, has won a new Canadian human rights award of $10,000 CD called the Justice Star Award. Peng is in self-exile because of an arrest warrant in Taiwan stemming from the effort of the Republic of China in-exile President Tsai Ing-wen to have the newsman prosecuted for criminal defamation over his reports about her controversial 1983 PhD thesis.
The new award, established by Estrella Shen, a Taiwanese-Canadian, received a number of nominations for Peng from former Stanford University faculty members and overseas organizations. “The committee scrutinized Professor Peng’s fearless performance in defending Taiwan’s freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and judicial justice, and in monitoring and challenging the totalitarian government.”
“Professor Peng is comparable to the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winners, two renowned media reporters, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov. The committee also contacted the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Professor Peng received his PhD degree.” Peng was praised by the Chancellor’s Office because he would “sift and winnow for the truth.”
Peng is the host of the True Voice of Taiwan, a popular, hour-long daily news program on the YouTube channel. Peng is being prosecuted for the criminal defamation of President Tsai. Peng began following the saga of Tsai’s 1984 PhD degree from the University of London after she triggered an academic firestorm when she submitted her thesis to the London School of Economics Library in June 2019, thirty-five years late.
To make matters worse, the tardy thesis appears to be a draft document with footnote issues, pagination problems, and hand-written notations including a question mark. Three versions of President Tsai’s diploma circulating on the internet compound the mystery of what went on back in London during the 1983-84 school year. Dennis Peng has made it his mission to get to the bottom of the thesis mystery and riled Tsai so much she complained to prosecutors.
The Justice Star Award has been initially endowed for twenty years to promote human rights. Estrella Shen has put her money where her mouth is and supports media freedom with her purse. Award winner Dennis Peng supports media freedom by putting his freedom at risk."
被台灣通緝的彭文正教授獲得加拿大正義之星獎和獎金加幣一萬元
2015年，距2016年總統大選前的幾個月，星島日報發表一篇文章，質疑台灣蔡英文博士學位的真實性。蔡為自己辯護：星島日報的質疑是中國政府支持的假消息。
2016年5月20日，蔡英文成為台灣首位女總統。前台灣大學教授兼研究所所長彭文正很榮耀地主持了蔡英文的就職宴會，因為彭文正教授相信蔡是倫敦政經學院的真博士。然而，蔡英文的誇大聲明“因在國貿方面的傑出成就，額外獲得0.5個博士學位”，引起學者們閱讀她的博士論文的興趣，卻因而揭發蔡英文38年的學術詐騙。
當許多學者展開調查,在蔡英文假博士醜聞中尋求學術正義時，2019年10月，蔡為圖利她2020年總統選舉，對彭文正教授、林環牆教授、賀德芬名譽教授提起誹謗刑事罪訴訟，來掩飾自己的博士學位造假。在採取法律行動後，蔡把她的假博士記錄和材料列為最高機密。在 2049 年底之前，這些保密的文件無法被取得。
2021年愚人節前一天，彭教授接到台北地檢署兩份相互矛盾的判決書；檢察官黃偉對彭教授同時做出起訴和不起訴判決。檢察官黃偉拒絕澄清哪個判決是錯誤的。此外，彭教授對”蔡英文誣告”的反訴尚未開庭。黃偉竟然完全漠視彭教授的反訴，做出全世界司法史上的最荒謬判決。
儘管失職，檢察官黃偉很快被提拔為首席檢察官。蔡對彭教授的刑事訴訟也從台北地檢署移至台北地方北法院。公訴檢察官劉承武為假博士蔡英文的學位欺詐進行辯護，對彭教授進一步定罪。犯罪事實應當有證據證明，沒有證據就不能成立。彭教授的律師提供了彭教授兩年來對蔡英文學位欺詐的調查證據。然而，黃偉檢察官竟然把彭教授的證據歸檔在不起訴的卷宗裡，並且接受了蔡的所有偽造文件和虛假陳述，以掩蓋蔡的博士學位造假。
彭教授被傳喚必須於 2021 年 10 月 20 日再次出庭。彭教授的律師張靜和李振華要求法官對該訴訟案進行遠程公開視訊審判；不幸的是，法官宣布“不必要”！
彭教授成為台灣歷史上第一個被現任總統刑事起訴的被告。蔡英文利用納稅人的錢聘請律師為她的博士欺詐辯護並操縱台灣的司法系統。彭教授在2019年6月開始“論文門”調查後，遭遇死亡威脅、跟踪、駭客入侵、政府迫害等多起侵犯人權事件。誹謗在台灣是刑事犯罪。在民主國家，刑事審判通常向公眾開放。法官決定不公開庭審，並強迫被告人彭教授親自出庭，這是關心司法正義和彭教授人身安全的所有人士所不能接受的。
司法系統應防止虛假供述來維護審判的公平完整性。不幸的是，當蔡英文的表姐夫被提名為最高檢察院院長時，台灣的司法已經完全在蔡英文的獨裁控制之下，審判"彭教授妨害蔡英文名譽"刑事案的法官,非但不允許視訊開庭，並且在2021年11月19日通告彭教授成為台灣的通緝犯。