The statement said the fascist authorities sentenced core member of the organization Ri Hui Chol, former chairman of the 8th-term Hanchongryon (the Federation of University Student Councils), to imprisonment on charge of violating the "Security Law" before throwing him behind bars on that day.

They had arrested and put him in custody several times since 2009 by accusing him of holding the post of chairman of Hanchongryon and his activities for national reunification, it noted.

It is something unprecedented that the authorities detained him again on charge of his past career and sentenced him to a jail term, a double and treble punishment, the statement charged.

This is the situation of south Korea under the reign of suppression, the statement deplored, urging the authorities to immediately stop such unjust clampdown.