The World - News from June 11, 1986
Hundreds of students, teachers, clerics, journalists and trade union leaders are jailed each year in South Korea for criticizing the government and some are tortured to extract false confessions, Amnesty International said. The London-based human rights group said that at least 10 political prisoners have been executed in South Korea since 1975. Electric shock, beatings and food- and sleep-deprivation are cited in the report.
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