Govt. played role in false prosecution of student activist in 1992: truth panel
Social affairsNov 21, 2018
The government exerted pressure in the early 1990s to falsely charge a student activist with abetting a friend's suicide and forging his will, a judiciary truth panel said Wednesday.In 1992, Kang Ki-hoon, then a university student, was sentenced to three years in prison for ghostwriting the will of Kim Ki-sul, who set himself on fire and jumped to his death from a university building in Seoul in protest against the government led by General-turned-President Roh Tae-woo.In 2015, the Supreme Court