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Last Sunday(9.25) Yonhap News Agency reported the following: A farmer who was hit by a police water cannon during a protest last fall died Sunday. Baek Nam-gi, 69, had been in coma since the water cannon knocked him down during the demonstration on Nov. 14 last year. Seoul National University Hospital pronounced Baek dead of acute renal failure at 2:15 p.m. Baek's family members and civic activists were by his side...

Yesterday's Korea Times reported that Four international organizations(International Federation for Human Rights, European Trade Union Confederation, International Trade Union Confederation and Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD) advocating human and labour rights jointly issued a statement, Wednesday, condemning Korea's prosecution and police for pushing for an autopsy of a deceased farmer, who died after being knocked down by a police water cannon during a rally last November. The statement comes after police re-applied for a warrant to conduct the autopsy on Baek Nam-ki, Monday night, after the Seoul Central District Court refused its first request early that day. The first request was filed on Sunday night after Baek, 69, died earlier in the afternoon following 10 months in a coma after being hit by the water cannon...(here you can read the complete Korea Times report)

Y'day(9.28) evening(KST): At around 8:10 pm, Seoul Central District Court granted the search, seizure, and examination warrant for Baek’s autopsy after a second request two days earlier by prosecutors...(source: Hankyoreh, 9.29)

Today(9.29): Hundreds of supporters including politicians, religious leaders, lawyers, civic activists, labor union members, farmers and students held a press conference...

...in front of the Sejong Center for Performing Arts in Gwanghwamun, downtown Seoul, condemning authorities' move to carry out the autopsy. They called for the government to apologize for Baek's death, for an independent counsel to conduct investigations into his death and punish those accountable and put an end to state violence and the use of water cannons...

Meanwhile, a UN rights expert in a news release called for local authorities to respect the will of the family to not have an autopsy conducted on Baek's body. "I call for a full and independent investigation into the police's use of water cannons during the rally that unambiguously led to Mr. Baek's death according to video footage available," Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai said in a news release issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. "The perpetrators should be held accountable and the family of Mr. Baek receive appropriate compensation. In addition, adequate measures must be taken to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future," he said...(source: K. Times, 9.29)