Sang Ryup Park

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Sang Ryup Park was an editor of the Los Angeles Korean Independence News, a newspaper favoring a unified, independent Korea, ordered deported under the McCarran Act amid the Korean War. He won a last-minute stay in late 1951 against deportation to South Korea, where supporters warned he faced death for his political views.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran Act — as a Korean independence editor opposing the U.S.-backed South Korean regime.
Sentence: Deportation order stayed; faced death if returned to South Korea.
Convicted: Ordered deported; won a last-minute stay (December 1951).

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