Amnesty International's Rory Mungoven, programme director for Asia and the Pacific region, holds a copy of Amnesty's human rights agenda for South Korea at a press conference in Seoul February 24. With president-elect Kim Dae-jung due to be inaugurated on Wednesday, Amnesty urged that Kim, himself once one of Amnesty's sponsored prisoners of conscience, carefully consider the release of the hundreds of prisoners of conscience now languishing in South Korean prisoners and to reform the draconian national security laws that allowed them to be arrested in the first place.

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