The National Human Rights Commission will send investigators to the Constitutional Court vicinity protests before and after the impeachment trial verdict of President Yoon Seok-yeol.
Ahn Chang-ho, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, is organizing materials at the plenary committee meeting. Photo by Yonhap News
On the 3rd, the Human Rights Commission announced that it sent official letters requesting cooperation for the investigators' monitoring activities to the National Police Agency and the Jongno Police Station in Seoul. The human rights investigators are scheduled to operate from 10 a.m. on the 4th until the 6th.
The investigation team consists of a total of 18 members, of whom 10 will be deployed to the protest sites to check for potential human rights violations. They also plan to observe whether public authority functions properly in unexpected situations such as intrusion into the Constitutional Court, interference with the protests, and conflicts among protest participants.
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