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John Juhn

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Civil Liberties Anti-Imperialism
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Biography

John Juhn was associated with the Los Angeles Korean-American paper Korean Independence and faced deportation to South Korea, where, as an opponent of the Syngman Rhee regime, supporters said he would face 'certain death.' His reopened deportation hearing was set for January 1956.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the immigration laws — to South Korea
Sentence: Faced deportation to South Korea
Convicted: Faced a reopened deportation hearing (1955–56)