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Diamond Kimm

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:1950s
State:California
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Biography

Diamond Kimm was a Korean-born printer and editor of the newspaper Korean Independence, a U.S. resident since 1928 and an outspoken opponent of the U.S.-backed Syngman Rhee regime. In 1959 the Ninth Circuit affirmed an order deporting him to South Korea — where, his supporters warned, he faced death — and the Supreme Court agreed to review the case.

Case

Charges: Deportation (Walter-McCarran Act) — tied to his radical, anti-Rhee politics
Sentence: Under deportation order; fighting removal to South Korea
Convicted: Deportation order affirmed 1959; Supreme Court review granted