jw.org's news report, published 7 March 2019, stating that the last Jehovah's Witness imprisoned in South Korea for conscientious objection was released on 28 February 2019, the sixty fifth and final Witness freed since the Supreme Court's 1 November 2018 ruling, ending the imprisonment of Jehovah's Witnesses for this reason in South Korea entirely.
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Citation
AuthorWatch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
PublisherWatch Tower Bible and Tract Society (jw.org)
Publication Year2019
URLhttps://www.jw.org/en/news/region/south-korea/All-Witnesses-Imprisoned-for-Conscientious-Objection-in-South-Korea-Now-Free/
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
An interested party's own report on the release of its own members, tier three; the total imprisoned since the 1950s (widely reported elsewhere as roughly eighteen to nineteen thousand) and the ruling it follows are corroborated by independent reporting. NotesUsed for the completion of Jehovah's Witnesses' South Korea event: the final release date and the ruling it followed.
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