Members of a group that had worked for the release last month of South Korean activist Kim Young-hwan, who was tortured and detained in China by Chinese authorities for over 100 days, held a press conference and demonstration in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul this morning at which they announced that they were going to form a committee. The purpose of the task force is to draw up and implement countermeasures to the torture of Kim.
Participants included about 20 leading local human rights activists such as Lee Jae Gyo (Attorney, President of Zeitgeist), Dr. Yun Yeo Sang (President of Database Center for North Korean Human Rights), Heo Hyun Jun (Executive Secretary of Tongyong Daughters Movement) and Ha Tae-kyung (National Assemblyman and former head of Open Radio for North Korea).
Members of a group that had worked for the release last month of South Korean activist Kim Young-hwan, who was tortured and detained in China by Chinese authorities for over 100 days, held a press conference and demonstration in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul this morning at which they announced that they were going to form a committee. The purpose of the task force is to draw up and implement countermeasures to the torture of Kim.
Participants included about 20 leading local human rights activists such as Lee Jae Gyo (Attorney, President of Zeitgeist), Dr. Yun Yeo Sang (President of Database Center for North Korean Human Rights), Heo Hyun Jun (Executive Secretary of Tongyong Daughters Movement) and Ha Tae-kyung (National Assemblyman and former head of Open Radio for North Korea).
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Jennifer Chang is a freelance broadcast and print journalist. She is now a Seoul-based correspondent with Global Radio News in London, and makes appearances as a reporter on English-language TV networks around the world. She also contributes articles to various publications such as the Christian Science Monitor's Global News Blog and Asia-Pacific Business and Technology Report, a magazine with subscribers in over 30 Asia-Pacific nations. Prior to working for GRN, she covered North and South Korea for the U.S. network, CBS Radio News.
