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| New! Update! Suh released on bail. For details, click here. UPDATED 11.2.98 |
| Trial to begin 15 January! For details, click here. UPDATED 8.1.98 |
Suh Joon-sik, the director of the Sarangbang Group for Human Rights in Korea, was arrested in early November because he refused to agree to pre-censorship of the Second Human Rights Film Festival held in Seoul. Trade union activists in Korea say that his arrest "reveals strikingly that freedom of expression and thought in this country is at serious risk."
Suggestion for action: Check out the Sarangbang home page -- Sarangbang Group for Human Rights in Korea . . .Write to Korean President Kim Young Sam and demand Suh's release -- click here.
| New! Victory for Sammi Steel workers! Details on the News page. UPDATED 10.12.97 |
Posco is the biggest steel company in Korea. When it acquired Sammi Special Steel, it fired 580 workers. As a result, 44 trade unionists went on hunger strike in protest. More than 20 popular organizations in Korea have rallied behind the Sammi hunger strikers and they are encouraging people from around the world to join in the protest.
Suggestion for action: Sign their guestbook and send letters of protest. Click here to visit their home page which has many other suggestions for action.
The South Korean government has banned access to Geocities -- http://www.geocities.com -- which hosts some 1,000,000 websites, including some important trade union sites. They claim that some home pages at Geocities contain illegal information about North Korea. Korean labour activists are asking for all those who care about freedom to resist this attempt to impose censorship on the Internet.
Suggestions for action: Write to Korean President Kim Young Sam -- click here. . . Write to the people in charge at Geocities -- encourage them to mobilize their million "homesteaders" in defense of a free and open Internet. You can do this from the following page: http://www.geocities.com/main/contact/comments_form.html. . . . Post messages to a Geocities Forum -- let people who use Geocities know about this attempt to shut them off -- http://www.geocities.com/cgi-bin/bb/message/18