Prosecution likely to appeal 1987 verdict in 'Brothers Welfare Center' case
Social affairsSept 13, 2018
The prosecution reform committee recommended Thursday that Prosecutor General Moon Moo-il invoke his right to file an emergency appeal against the 1987 not-guilty verdict for the operator of a welfare facility accused of deadly abuses of inmates, mostly vagrants and hobos.The Brothers Welfare Center was established in the southeastern port city of Busan in 1975 during the administration of former strongman President Park Chung-hee with the goal of rehabilitating vagrants and hobos. But the facil