Daegu District Prosecutors' Office Initiates Ex Officio Retrial for 'Abducted Returning Fishermen' Wrongfully Punished as Spies
The prosecution has initiated an ex officio retrial procedure for a fisherman who was abducted to North Korea and wrongfully criminally punished upon return.
On the 18th, the Daegu District Prosecutors' Office filed an ex officio retrial request for one fisherman who returned after being abducted.
This follows the Supreme Prosecutors' Office's initiation on the 16th of ex officio retrial requests for 100 fishermen who were wrongfully imprisoned in the past after being accused of espionage.
The subject of the ex officio retrial request is 'Song Hak-ho,' a chief engineer who was abducted while fishing beyond the fishing boundary line in the East Sea in 1968, returned, and was convicted of violating the Anti-Communist Law and other charges (he passed away in 2007).
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The Daegu District Prosecutors' Office plans to conduct ex officio retrials for seven individuals, including chief engineer Song Hak-ho, among the 100 fishermen who returned after abduction.
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