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MENTAL HEALTH

Korean Human Rights Commission Finds Psychiatric Hospital Illegally Restrained Patients for Months

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea says 53 patients were falsely labeled “voluntary” admissions and 52 were illegitimately restrained.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Man Who Exploited Minors in South Korea’s Biggest Cybersex Blackmail Ring Sentenced to Life

Seoul court calls the predator’s crimes cruel and the damages irreparable after hundreds were coerced into sexual exploitation through encrypted online chats.