On the afternoon of November 30, last year, former President Chun Doo-hwan is getting out of the Gwangju District Law by holding his wife Lee Soon-ja’s hand after being tried for defaming the late Father Jobio who witnessed the May 18 helicopter shooting. Hankook Ilbo data photo
Former President Chun Doo-Hwan’s memoirs related to his memoirs (Chun Doo-hwan’s memoirs) were also subject to a trial in Gwangju.
The first criminal division of the Gwangju High Court (Director Seung-cheol Lee) announced on the 18th that it had dismissed the request for jurisdiction relocation that the former president submitted to change the court in charge to the Seoul Central District Act so that the former president could receive a fair trial.
The former president previously discussed the fairness of the trial on January 21 and requested the Supreme Court to change the court of appeals. On November 30, last year, the Gwangju District Court imprisoned for two years probation in August for accusing the late Father Jobio, who testified of the martial law army’s helicopter shooting during the May 18 Democratization Movement, as a “unscrupulous liar.” It has been two months since the sentence was sentenced. In response, the Supreme Court filed an application for jurisdiction transfer to the Gwangju High Court, saying, “It has no jurisdiction.”
The former president’s side has been emphasizing that the trial will not proceed fairly for reasons such as “the local public sentiment is full of hatred demanding punishment for the former president rather than clarifying the actual truth.”
However, the judge concluded that “the repulsion of some local politicians and civic groups, and the presence of negative local sentiment to the former president, this local public sentiment affects the proceedings and conclusions of the trial to the extent that it is difficult for the case judge to give a fair trial I can’t do it,” he dismissed. The judge also said, “It is difficult for the former president to attend a trial in Gwangju just because the former president is elderly and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.” Jeon filed an application for transfer to the court, saying that he could not go to Gwangju due to his old age even during the first trial, but was dismissed.
Former President, in the’Memoirs of Chun Doo-hwan’ published on April 3, 2017, claimed to Father Jobio, who testified that there was a helicopter gun case by the martial law army at the time of May 18, saying, “The word clergy is an unscrupulous liar.” He was prosecuted without custody on charges of damage.
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