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Three days ago(5.10) the British Trades Union Congress delivered a protest letter to the S.K. ambassador in the UK:

"The Trades Union Congress, the national trade union centre for the UK with our 6.5 million members is concerned about the arrest and detention of the President of the Migrants' Trade Union (MTU), Torna Limbu, and Vice President Abudus Sabur on 2 May 2008. We urge you in the strongest possible terms to convey to your Government our belief that they need to start improving social relations in South Korea by ending repression of trade unions, including migrant trade unions. In particular, the President and the Vice-President of the MTU should be released without further delay, and allowed to continue their valuable and legitimate fight for migrant workers...

The TUC believes that it is clear from the above that the two trade union leaders were targeted in connection with their trade union activities. There is a clear pattern of arresting leaders of the MTU and deporting them shortly after they have become elected to top positions in the union. The two former presidents of the union were also arrested and deported in a similar fashion."

http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-14747-f0.cfm

Y'day the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) published following call for solidarity with MTU:

☞ Stop New Repression of Migrants Union in Korea

And finally in the Philippines the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights is demanding:

☞ Stop Repression Against MTU and Migrant Workers in S. Korea