Around the world…
Derek Brett highlights the challenges still facing conscientious objectors throughout the globe in a series of country profiles
South Korea
Ninety per cent of the world’s imprisoned conscientious objectors are in South Korea. Since 1950, 16,296 Jehovah’s Witnesses have been sentenced to a total of 31,204 years’ imprisonment for refusing to perform military service. In recent years they have been joined by other Christians, Buddhists and ‘secular’ pacifists. Last autumn there were 945 conscientious objectors in prison, including 843 Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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