紧急关注：8名南朝鲜工人运动者面临5-7年的铁窗生涯

作者：Loren Goldner　　

2010年12月3日，在首尔中央区法庭，检察官要求判处延世大学名誉教授吴世彻（Oh Sei-chull/오세철）和其他七名南朝鲜革命社会主义组织“社会主义劳动者联合”（社劳联）成员Yang Hyo-seok (양효석), Yang Joon-seok (양준석), Choi Young-ik (최영익), Park Joon-seon (박준선), Jeong Won-hyung (정원형), and Oh Min-gyu (오민규)五到七年徒刑。这些工运活动家被指控违反了南朝鲜著名的国家安全法（1948年通过，理论上仍然规定可以对“亲北（即朝鲜民主主义人民共和国）”活动家判决死刑）。身为国际主义者，社劳联的这八名积极分子主张在南北朝鲜进行劳动阶级革命，对他们的指控除了进行社会主义活动外并没有明确的罪名，但事实上这归因于他们对2007年南朝鲜几次罢工运动的参与。这是近年来第一起在《国家保安法》的严厉压力下而引发的事件。它发生在南朝鲜李明博的政府 2008年执政以来剧烈右倾的政策大背景下（如2009年对双龙汽车公司罢工的镇压，实际上，社劳联在罢工期间散发的传单成为法庭上的关键证据）。

2008以来，检察官几次企图对社劳联提出诉讼，但在12月以前，此案每次都被法庭拒绝接受。最终判决将于1月27日公布，目前，发给中央区法庭法官金亨斗（Kim Hyung Doo/김형두）的抗议电子邮件有可能将会减轻或者杯葛未来的判决。

你可以通过如下电子邮件地址写信给Kim（金）法官，让他了解你反对“思想犯罪”的感受和意见。

mailto:[email protected]

电子邮件必须在2011年1月17日星期一早晨六点（首尔时间）之前被接收到，以便社劳联的律师可以将它们在审判开始之前转给Kim（金）法官。

请将这一关注文章广泛转发。除去英语以外的其他语言的意见也将受到欢迎。

South Korean state persecutes socialist workers
Submitted on 9 January, 2011 - 18:52 North and South Korea Solidarity 3/188, 12 January 2011

Author: Loren Goldner
On Dec. 3 of last year, the prosecutor in the Seoul Central District Court demanded prison terms of 5-7 years for Oh sei-chull and other members (Yang Hyo-seok, Yang Joon-seok, Choi Young-ik, Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyung, and Oh Min-gyu) of the Socialist Workers’ Alliance of Korea (SWLK), a revolutionary socialist group. These activists in the Korean working-class movement were indicted under South Korea’s notorious National Security Law (passed in 1948 and theoretically still stipulating the death penalty for “pro-North” activities). The eight militants of the SWLK, who as internationalists advocate working-class revolution in both Koreas, were accused of no specific crime except being socialists, but in reality the indictment resulted from their intervention in several strikes and movements going back to 2007. This is the first instance of such harsh repression under the National Security Law in many years. It occurs in the larger context of the hard-right turn (such as the smashing of the Ssangyong Motor Co. strike of 2009) of South Korean President Lee Myong Bak’s government since he took office in early 2008. (In fact, leaflets of the SWLK distributed during the Ssangyong strike were key evidence in the trial.)

Prosecutors have attempted to indict members of the SWLK several times since 2008, and prior to December, the prosecutors’ case was thrown out of court each time. It is not impossible that a barrage of e-mail protests to Judge Hyung Doo Kim of the Seoul Central District Court will help reduce or obviate the pending sentences altogether, when final sentencing will take place on Jan. 27.

Let Judge Kim know your feelings in your own words about this crackdown on “thought crime” by writing to [email protected]

The e-mails must be received by 06:00 AM on Monday January 17th 2011 (Seoul time), so that the SWLK’s lawyer can forward them to Judge Kim prior to sentencing.

Please distribute this appeal as widely as possible. Messages in languages other than English are welcome.

Loren Goldner

For further details on this case, contact me at [email protected]