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Yang Yoon-Mo

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:2010s
Time Imprisoned:
2 Months 12 Days
Support
Anti-War Anti-Imperialism Indigenous Sovereignty
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Biography

Yang Yoon-Mo is a Korean Jeju Naval Base resister. Obstruction of business of military port contractors, Jeju.

Since 2007, the South Korean government has been constructing a major naval base on Gangjeong village, Jeju Island — a UNESCO biosphere reserve and South Korea's southernmost island. The base, designed to host U.S. and South Korean Aegis destroyers and a port-of-call for U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, is widely understood as a forward-deployment site for the U.S. military's posture against China. Local Gangjeong residents and Korean peace activists have maintained continuous nonviolent resistance at the construction gates since 2010; hundreds have been arrested and dozens have served Korean prison sentences for trespass, obstruction, and civil disobedience.

Case

Jeju Prison
Charges: Obstruction of business of military port contractors, Jeju
Arrested: Jan 31, 2014
Incarcerated: Jan 31, 2014
Released: Apr 12, 2014
Sentence: 18 months
Institution State: South Korea