CO Alerts letter form

Use this form to send the letter below to the relevant authority (President Roh Moo-hyun, Republic of Korea). You can add your own notes in a separate box after the standard text, if you wish.
You must include a name, address, and email address; a copy will be sent to you with a cc to the WRI office (so we have a record of how many email letters have been sent out for this particular case).

Standard text for letter of appeal:

 


    
I am deeply troubled about the imprisonment of conscientious objector Hi Jai Lim, who was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on 10 March 2003. Hi Jai Lim, and 1,500 other conscientious objectors in South Korea, are send to prison because they refuse to bear arms. Their imprisonment is a violation of their human right to conscientious objection, derived from article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

I therefore call on you, Mr President, to act immediately in accordance with international human rights standards, and to finally recognise the right to conscientious objection. In the meantime, all imprisoned conscientious objectors should be released, and proceedings should be put on hold for all those who declare their conscientious objection, until a law on conscientious objection was passed.


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