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Ten years ago: After the first New Year's days passed relative quietly for the Myeongdong Sit-in Struggle Collective (MSSC) on January 7 a new well-planned attack by immigration officers took place. On this afternoon MSSC held a protest rally in front of Bangladesh's embassy in Seoul/Itaewon. During the rally we'd to learn that in the nearby Capitol Hotel a large group of immigration officers is staying there. Because the fact that this was not an accident we finished the rally and went fast to the direction of the next subway station. But some 200 riot cops - during the rally they "guarded" the embassy - were faster and surrounded us and blocked our way. A short while later around 50 immigration officers arrived and started to pull out specially ETU-MB (Equality Trade Union/Migrants Branch). But, even they used extreme violence, beaten the people and used tear gas guns, they got 'only' two particularly weak members: Kul Bahadur Yakha (K.B.) a very small and light comrade from Nepal and Enamul Haq (Haq) an elder Bangladeshi ETU-MB member. But even they were two very simple victims the immigration cops, especially in the case of Haq, maltreated him until they got him in the bus for evacuation...
MUST SEE(!!): Impressive video, depicting the rally & attack..
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Today's Korea Times reported the following:
US-based website on NK blocked
NK News, a Washington, D.C.-based website focused on North Korea...
...has been partially blocked in South Korea for violating the National Security Law (NSL), authorities confirmed Monday.
“We’ve received some complaints saying, ‘Can we have our money back? Half the website isn’t working.’ That puts us in a difficult situation, all because of this archaic law from the 1940s,” Chad O’ Carroll, managing editor of NK News told The Korea Times from London.
The restriction by the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), enforced since October, reignites a long-running debate over the controversial law.
Officials here say that accessing material from North Korea is not problematic; however, spreading such material violates the NSL and has resulted in arrests.
The block affects a feature on the website called “KCNA Watch,” which extracts content from Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) website in Korean, English and Chinese and turns it into data such as graphs. It provides access to KCNA articles dating back to 1997.
According to the KCSC, the block came after a “substantial part of the content” was filed for review by the National Police Agency (NPA). Upon examination of the website, the commission found the content violated the NSL, a KCSC official said on condition of anonymity..
Bernhard Seliger, resident representative of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation(*) Korea, a German group with engagement projects in North Korea, suggested that the South has outgrown the law. “South Korea is a very successful economic and political (democratic) model and has nothing to fear from some (admittedly often bizarre) ‘information’ from the North,” he said...
* The Hans-Seidel-Foundation is associated with the German ultra conservative "Christian 'Social' Union"(the sister party of the ruling "Christian 'Democratic' Union")...
Y'day afternoon/evening in Seoul: About 1,500 KCTU activists and 'netizens' got together in front of the City Hall under the slogan "Step down, Park Geun-hye! Stop privatisation! Abolish repression on labour movement! Forward to the next General Strike!"...
Already the day before(1.03) 700 representatives of various labour unions, affiliated to KCTU, rallied in the afternoon in front of Seoul's Central Stn, called for a nationwide general strike and demanded that Park Geun-hye must resign...
Almost at the same time a bunch of geezers, members of the so-called (conservative/reactionary/semi-fascist!!)"Korea Parent Federation", gathered in front of KCTU's HQ and urged: "Dissolve KCTU & arrest their leaders!!"...
[KRWU strike & int'l solidarity] Video clip, shown during last Saturday's(12.28) KCTU "General Strike" rally in Seoul...
Yesterday's TOP NEWSMAKER in the int'l media[noteworthy: ALL readers' comments - for example in The Guardian - expressed negative attitudes regarding KJU's dictatorship(usually at least some of the comments were defending NK)!!]...
Ten years ago: Since six weeks dozens of migrant workers and their Korean supporters are occupying Myeongdong Cathedral’s compound in downtown Seoul. On New Year's Eve in front of the Central Immigration Office(Seoul/Mok-dong) we were attacked for the first time by immigration officers, backed by hundreds of riot cops...
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