Human Rights Commission: "Restricting Dormitory Residents' Outings and Overnight Stays to Prevent COVID-19 Infection Is Excessive"
[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] The National Human Rights Commission has judged that restricting dormitory students' outings and completely banning overnight stays as a measure to prevent COVID-19 cluster infections was excessive.
On the 6th, the Human Rights Commission announced that it recommended the principal of autonomous private high school A to stop the excessive restrictions on dormitory students' outings and overnight stays and to prepare measures to prevent recurrence. The commission stated, "Considering the nationwide COVID-19 quarantine measures, the school's actions were excessive," and added, "Restricting outings and completely banning overnight stays without seeking the opinions of dormitory students, citing COVID-19 prevention and quarantine, infringed upon the general freedom of action guaranteed by the Constitution."
Earlier, a student living in the dormitory of high school A filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, saying, "Since August last year, the school has established a plan to restrict dormitory students' outings and overnight stays due to COVID-19, causing significant limitations on outings and controlling overnight stays." The school argued that it was a minimal and unavoidable measure to prevent a COVID-19 cluster infection in the dormitory, where about 1,000 students, accounting for 90% of the enrolled students, live.
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However, the Human Rights Commission's Child Rights Committee pointed out that dormitory students are only allowed 30 minutes of outings on weekdays and 1 hour and 30 minutes on weekends and holidays, which significantly restricts their free outdoor activities, and that overnight stays are completely banned, preventing them from meeting their families. Furthermore, about 10% of the school's total students commute from home, raising doubts about whether restricting dormitory students' outings and overnight stays is effective in preventing COVID-19 infections.
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