Gangjeong updates - from Gangjeong International Team

2011-09-14

1.   A lot of arresting happening within a short time:
On Sep. 12th, Gangjeong villagers and the Peace Activists who couldn’t go back home had a celebration for Korean Thanks-giving Day together. Some villagers were absent because of the unfair imprisonment.
Since the struggling has been started, the arresting from the national power never stopped. So far, many peace activists or villagers have ever been arrested and putted in jail. Now there are still 7 protesters in Jeju regional jail. They were respectively arrested on August 24th,September 1, and September 2nd.

On August 24th,the navy and the construction workers come to the naval base construction sites to assemble the crane. The mayor of Gangjeong went to the sites to observe the situation and contacted with the Seogwipo city hall for the further information of this action. Thus, everybody is waiting for the results, and while waiting the results, the police suddenly tried to arrest mayor.

People were very angry and rejected to let the police bring the mayor out. Following the blocking, more people got arrested and finally the police promised the people that they will release the arrested after finishing the investigation in the police station but police broke out the promise so the villagers had a huge demonstration overnight in front of the police station on 25th.