It emerged belatedly that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) dismissed all petitions seeking the installation of an air conditioner in the solitary cell at the Seoul Detention Center where former President Yoon Suk-yeol is being held.
According to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the 30th, 104 petitions from supporters concerned about human rights violations in the former president's detention facility were all dismissed on Feb. 23. The NHRC said it made the decision because it was clear that the victim, former President Yoon, did not want an investigation.
After the former president was imprisoned at the Seoul Detention Center in July last year, supporters filed a series of petitions with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Petitions related to "human rights violations due to poor conditions in correctional facilities," including calls to install an air conditioner, accounted for 80 of the 104 cases.
The solitary cell of about 2 pyeong where the former president stays reportedly has no air conditioner and only a fan. Supporters filed petitions, saying, "It is improper to confine an elderly person in a small room during extreme heat," but the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) dismissed them all.