Amnesty International (AI) is concerned about reports of the ill health of Pang Yang-kyun, a 36-year-old prisoner of conscience imprisoned since 1989. He was formerly ...
Cho Song-woo, Lee Hae-hak, Lee Chang-bok and Kim Hi-taek are all serving prison sentences of between 18 months and two years on charges of making illegal contact ...
The above-named, a 44-year-old leading dissident and co-chairman of the dissident organization Chonminnyon (National Alliance for Democratic Movement), is serving ...
Allegations of torture and ill-treatment of some political and other prisoners in South Korea are reported here. Several members of the Sanomaeng (Socialist Workers ...
Reverend Hong Keun-soo, currently pastor of the Hyang Rin Presbyterian Church in Seoul, was arrested on 20 February 1991 by members of the Agency for National Secutiry ...
Fourteen people are known to have been executed in South Korea in 1990 and at least 16 more are reported to be on "death row". In 1989, seven people were executed ...
This circular contains excerpts from a selection of letters from prisoners to Amnesty International groups. They show the encouragement and support prisoners gain ...
EXTERNAL (for general distribution)AI Index: ASA 25/02/91. Distr: UA/SC. PLEASE SEND UP TO 20 APPEALS PER SECTION. UA 58/91 Union Leaders Arrested18 February 1991 ...
This document describes Amnesty International's (AI) concerns about repression of members of a teachers' union in South Korea. Lee Yong-ju, Chairman of the South ...
