Korea declares special amnesty
NZPA-AP Seoul The South Korean Government has announced a special amnesty for 1730 people, including 714 former political prisoners, on the eve of its thirty-sixth Independence Day. Of the total, 1016 were common criminals. The remaining 714, who had been convicted of laws and decrees governing political Srisoners and parolled, had leir civil rights reinstated under the measure. This was the seventeenth amnesty decreed by President Chung Doo-Hwan since he became president in August, 1980. Among tnose former political prisoners who had their civil rights reinstated were a Protestant minister, Lee Hae-Dong, and Hahn Wan-Sang, a former professor at Seoul National University now living in New York. Both were tried together with the prominent dissident, Kim Dae-Jung, and others on charges of conspiring a rebellion against the Government in the summer of 1980.
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Press, 15 August 1984, Page 44
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