South Korean survivors of a bloody crackdown on the southern island of Jeju in 1948 have been found not guilty more than 70 years after imprisonment.
Jan. 17 (UPI) — South Korean survivors of a bloody crackdown on the southern island of Jeju in 1948, who were formally charged with insurrection, have been acquitted more than 70 years after imprisonment.
Jeju District Court said Thursday charges against 18 residents of the island detained and often tortured at the hands of anti-communist police from 1948 to 1954 are to be dismissed, Seoul Shinmun reported.
Military courts at the time “did not go through procedure prescribed by law,” the court said in its decision. “The accusations against the defendants are invalid because of the breach of due process of law.
