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Sang Ryun Park

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

Sang Ryun Park was the English-language editor of the Los Angeles Korean-American paper Korean Independence, arrested for deportation to South Korea under the McCarran-Walter Act as part of the harassment of the anti-Syngman Rhee paper. A federal judge suspended the deportation order, rebuking the Immigration Service for 'summarily disposing of a man's life.'

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran-Walter Act — to South Korea
Sentence: Faced deportation to South Korea
Convicted: Arrested for deportation; order suspended by a federal judge (1955)