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THE president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), Yang Kyung Soo, was arrested at dawn on September 1 in an ambush involving police squadrons in riot suppression gear and fire trucks surrounding the union headquarters at 5am and smashing their way into the union at 5.30am.
Yang is a member of the autoworkers’ union KMWU through the Kia irregular workers’ branch.
The authorities pre-emptively arrested the president of South Korea’s largest trade union confederation to lock him up under pretrial detention while they investigate into his supposed crimes which they allege are: obstruction of general traffic through demonstration; violation of the Act on Assembly and Demonstration; and acts relating to infectious disease control.
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