'Illegal investigation' of a abducted fisherman who returned to "harsh without a warrant"

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The abducted fishermen and their families, who had been abducted and returned to North Korea, but had to be framed as spies, are having a hard time resolving the injustice. .

Reporter Won Jong-jin reports.

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About 50 years ago, Mr. Lee Young-ran remembers his father, who was abducted from North Korea while fishing.

[Lee Young-ran/Daughter of a returnee fisherman from North Korea: As soon as I arrived, I was beaten at the inn and just like this…

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I inquired around Sokcho Port where the inn was located.

She is still inhabited by people who remember those days.

[Park Jong-sik / At the time, the owner of the inn in Sokcho: I did not sleep and (fishermen) took turns taking turns.

Beaten and scream

At Haedong Inn, it was said that '(her fishermen were in pain) I used a nail and pounded her head to commit suicide'...

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A police report obtained by SBS at the time supports these memories.

Returned fishermen will be accommodated in the Sokcho City Hall conference room, but the fishermen will be interrogated at the Haedong Inn 110m away, not at the nearby police station.

Even before the investigation began, the period of interrogation was set for a week from midnight on the day of return, and the direction of the newspaper was to dig up spy orders.

These guidelines were shared with the Central Intelligence Agency, the Ministry of the Interior, and the prosecution from the beginning.

It contains the circumstances in which he tried to obtain a confession of being a spy through harsh acts while in illegal detention without a warrant.

About 3,600 seafarers returned after being abducted during the military regime, but state agencies have been stingy in providing investigation materials for reasons of 'security'.

The newly discovered materials are expected to be helpful to the abducted returnee fishermen and their families, who had little legal knowledge and were busy with their daily lives.

[Choi Jeong-gyu / Attorney: At that time, it is really decisive (I think the data) in starting the retrial because some criminal acts such as illegal detention of investigators at that time are confirmed.]