> Please support our friends who are on humgar strike.
>
> @On 14 May 2002, a man on electric scooter fell from the lift at the
subway
> station in Seoul. He is the third victim who died. According to the Seoul
> Government who runs the line, his death was due to misoperation. The City
> does not admit the responsibility for his death. The very simply made
lift
> should be operated by wheelchair users by themselves without station
> -staff's assistance.
>
> It is Mr. Park Koung Suk and one more wheelchair person who started the
> hunger strike on 11 Aug, occupying a room of the National Human Rights
> Commission. The strike is still on because of stubborn attitude of the
> city. We are very much anxious of their health condition.
>
> Mr. Park organized the Struggle for Mobility Rights soon after the
first
> death at the subway station in Jan. last year. He is a principal of the
> Nodul night school for illiterate disabled adults, so that many member of
> the Struggle are his students and graduates. During the strike the
> yvisited him from time to time and had one-day hunger strike one after
> another.
>
> Please support them to save their lives and lives of wheelchair friends
> who have to use subway everyday.
> Mayor of Seoul mailto:[log in to unmask]
> Chairperson of Human Rights Commission mailto:[log in to unmask]
> If you understand Korean, there is updated information on
> http://access.jinbo.net/
>
> Yukiko and Shoji Nakanishi
>
>
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