Han Byeon “Promoting the impeachment of Judge Seong-geun Lim, taming the judiciary”

Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Tan-hee, Open Democratic Party lawmaker Kang Min-jeong, Justice Party lawmaker Ryu Ho-jeong, and Basic Income Party lawmaker Yong Hye-in hold a press conference on the morning of the 22nd at the National Assembly Communication Hall to propose’impeachment of a judge of the Judicial Nongdan. 2021.1.22/News1 © News1
-In connection with the Democratic Party’s pursuit of impeachment proceedings against the head of the Busan High Court Im Seong-geun, a conservative attorneys’ meeting for human rights and reunification on the Korean peninsula, said on the 29th, “An unconstitutional maneuver due to the infringement of jurisdiction rights,” and “Stop impeachment attempts immediately. I urged.

Han Byeon also asked Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo, “not to be silent, but to take your position and express a firm position.”

Han Byeon said, “When there is a reason for a request for an impeachment trial in the Constitutional Court Act,” he said, “when there is a’significant’ violation of the law that justifies the dismissal of a public official. It cannot be said that this is the reason for impeachment.”

Han Byeon also pointed out that “Judge Im has not extended his term of office and is about to retire at the end of February. Even if the National Assembly’s impeachment bill is passed, it is difficult for the Democratic Party’s impeachment to come out within February.” In addition, the Democratic Party is planning to process an impeachment bill against Judge Im Seong-geun within the provisional National Assembly in February because he was involved in the Judicial Nongdan that occurred during the days of former Supreme Court Chief Yang Seung-tae. Deputy Judge Im intervened in the defamation trial of former President Park Geun-hye, former head of the Seoul Bureau of the Sankei Shimbun, Tatsuya Kato, and was handed over to trial on charges of revising the reasons for the sentence at the time of the trial in the case of the arrest of a lawyer for a democratic society. The first trial court admitted that the vice-president Judge Lim intervened in the trial, but sentenced him to innocence, saying it did not fall under the crime of obstructing the exercise of the right to abuse of authority. The prosecution appealed, and Judge Lim is currently undergoing a second trial.

Judge Lim did not apply for reappointment, and his term of office ends on February 28th.


(Seoul = News 1)