Campaign highlights plight of conscientious objectors
Campaign launched on International Conscientious Objectors' Day
by Tara Craig
22nd May 2015
War Resisters’ International marked International Conscientious Objectors’ Day on 15 May by launching a campaign on behalf of the six hundred conscientious objectors (COs) imprisoned in South Korea.
‘Worldwide, ninety-two per cent of all conscientious objectors imprisoned for refusing obligatory military service are in the Republic of Korea (South Korea)’, the charity said in a statement.
Most of those imprisoned by South Korea for refusing to undertake compulsory military service are Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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