Activists Face Legal Scrutiny After Cathedral Rooftop Protest as South Korea Reexamines the Legacy of High-Rise Demonstrations

SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) —  Two disability rights activists affiliated with the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) underwent a pretrial detention hearing on Monday after staging a 15-day rooftop protest atop a Catholic cathedral in Seoul’s Hyehwa-dong neighborhood. They were arrested earlier this month on charges of violating assembly laws after descending voluntarily from the [...]