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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:58:02 +0900
From: Jie-Hyun Lim <jiehyun@email.hanyang.ac.kr>
Organization: HanYang Univ.
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Subject: Jiehyun's SOS message
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Dear Friends,
I am in need of your help. The day before yesterday(April 13) South
Korean authority arrested my student(Senior year/Dept. of
History/Hanyang Univ. Seoul, Korea) whose name is Youngjoon Ha. He is
one of the most intelligent and promising students. The authority issued
a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Ha on the ground that he sent a series
of summarized reports of the published articles in some Korean
progressive journals and British Trotskist journals to the discussion
group in the computer net.
He was sentenced to eighteen months in prison with a stay of execution
for three years in 1996, November for being a member of International
Socialist-Korean Trotskite group. It means that he has been placed on
probation. In recent past he stopped being an political activist and
studied very hard for the graduate school. I cannot endorse that former
democratic dissident Kim Daejung's government did that nasty thing. As a
way of fighting against the anti-humanitarian oppression of the freedom
of thought, I am appealing to friends who understand the human rights
and social justice. How on earth does any democratic government arrest a
person who expressed his opinion by citing and summarizing the legally
published materials? Please inform the political oppression and the
violation of human rights of the so-called democratic South Korean
government to the National Committees of Amnesty and Human Right's
Movement Group in your countries. Please organize the protest movement
against the South Korean government.
For the freedom of thought and international solidarity!
Fraternally,
Jie-Hyun Lim