AI is concerned about a number of prisoners convicted under national security legislation in Korea, who appear to remain in detention because of their refusal ...
Hwang Seung-hyun, Jang Gee-bum, Kim Mee-kyung and Lee Kwon-seop were released after questioning by police about the activities of the singing troupe, Heemangsae ...
Kang Yong-ju, aged 36, a former medical student and student activist from Kwangju was arrested on 1 July 1985 by the Agency for National Security and Planning. ...
1. South Korea: Amnesty International puts human rights on the agenda of President's European meetings. 2. Western Samoa: Sedition charges against political leaders ...
EXTERNAL. AI Index: ASA 25/41/90. Distrib : PG/SC. Date: 4 September 1990. MEDICAL CONCERN. CONTINUED DETENTION OF KIM CHIN-YOP. REPUBLIC OF [SOUTH] KOREA. ...
19 executions were carried out on 2 November in secret at prisons in South Korea. The government did not give any warning of the executions. There are fears that ...
Park Seok-jin is a conscientious objector and prisoner of conscience, serving an 18-month prison sentence for "desertion" in Yongdungpo Prison. According to his ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 28 November 2008. AI Index No: ASA 25/011/2008. South Korea: Repeal or fundamentally reform the National Security Law. ...
Eleven members of Somiryon, the Seoul affiliate of the National Minjung Arts Movement, were arrested in March 1991. The were reportedly interrogated continuously ...
