[단독] “Even if you dedicate a crime, you have to be very careful about the expulsion of refugees” … The to start with sentence of the Court docket

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There is a young man who escaped torture in an African country and settled in Korea as a refugee.

Even so, as he ongoing to dedicate crimes these as assault, the govt ordered his deportation.

Is it appropriate for refugees who dedicate crimes to leave our region?

The initial courtroom ruling has been attained.

Reporter Yang So-yeon.

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A central African country 10 several years ago.

A soldier who killed his father in rebellion tortured his mom and son.

A young person in his twenties, who sooner or later turned handicapped, fled to Korea and was acknowledged as a refugee.

While he founded himself functioning in a factory, he endured torture and usually depended on alcohol and painkillers.

As a result, he has regularly fully commited crimes these types of as drunk driving, assault and compelled harassment, paying fines 10 instances and even jailed.

Even the warning of “compelled deportation” did not help, so in July last yr the Ministry of Justice requested the expulsion of the youthful refugee.

The younger refugee submitted a lawsuit indicating he would not be able to go away Korea, saying that if he returned to his country, he would be subjected to intense torture, these kinds of as staying stabbed in the eye with significant beating and needles.

Following a yr of authorized battle, the court accepted the youthful refugee.

“It is unlawful at least not to get measures to designate a region of repatriation as a state in which there is no fear of persecution or torture, and to evict unconditionally,” he stated.

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“The court put a stop to the Ministry of Justice’s exercise of repatriating persons to their residence international locations for committing a criminal offense, irrespective of whole punishment.”

The fact that this young person experienced nowhere to go other than his dwelling country also served as the foundation for the final decision.

The court docket ruled that the Convention in opposition to Torture ought to be respected, which states that “an individual are not able to be deported to a place that challenges remaining tortured”.

This is the initially time that a court has made the decision irrespective of whether the refugee deportation get is justified.

I’m Soyeon Yang of MBC News.

Online video coverage: Gomyeong Dok / Online video modifying: Eun-joo Nam / Illustration: Na-rin Kang

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