Unyielding Action for Democracy
Unyielding Action for Democracy South Korean people’s action for democracy in south Korea is getting intense as the year is drawing to close. The committee for promoting the release of prisoners of conscience and organizations of citizens and students held a rally outside Cheongwadae on Dec. 16 to demand the release of prisoners of conscience. Prior to the rally, they marched from Gwanghwamun Plaza to Cheongwadae, chanting slogans in demand of immediate release of all conscientious prisoners. The conscientious prisoners including the KCTU chairman Han Sang-geun and a member of former Unified Progressive Party Lee Seok-gi have been imprisoned during the period of Park Geun-hye’s office, they charged. They said that the people as well as the civic and religious groups are demanding release of the conscientious prisoners. ...