No Pledge, No Amnesty Reinstatement
MOJ Required to Write a Pledge of Abiding Law for Reinstatement
Source : KOREA
MOJ are being attacked in choosing the objects of 8·15 amnesty because it required for even objects of reinstatement to write a pledge of abiding law (the pledge). Though there have been raising voices of abolishing the pledge policy because it is just an name-altered policy of the conversion strategy, it required strongly in this amnesty. The pledge became a conventional requisite to amnesty.
MOJ announced that it urged the objects of reinstatement to write the pledge and people who don't write it are excluded from the reinstatement. So it can be understood whether to write the pledge is the requisite for reinstatement.
But the MOJ's policy is not supported by law. To this notice a person concerned with the reinstatement said it was just for the people whose irrevocable judgements had been settled after Feb. 25th. 1998. However, different to this person's explanation, this amnesty includes people after present regime as well as people in advanced regime. Furthermore it came out that the conscience prisoners who have been restricted in a prison for several decades and people whose irrevocable judgements were settled during last regimes were required to write the pledge. As the pledge is extended to the objects of reinstatement, the conscience prisoners including fired laborers who refused to write the pledge may have serious obstacles to many activities such as the struggle of reappointment and for applying to civil servants.
SOURCE:KOREA HUMAN RIGHTS DAILY NEWS June 27th, 1999
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