On February first, film critic and one of the longest protestors at the jeju naval base in South Korea, Professor Yang Yoon-Mo was sentenced to one year & six months imprisonment, unsuspended for his peaceful non-violent protest.

He is now on his 29th day of hungerstrike. Prof. Yang said he would enter fast soon to claim the nullification on the government report on the result of simulation (* Jan. 31) and to revoke the Jeju naval base project. He says that he will not go out prison unless he dies.

Yang Yoon-Mo has been  and has previously spent several months in prison on two different occasions. He brought much attention to the struggle in 2011 when he fasted for more than 70 days almost dying.

You can sent him a letter of support to:

Yang Yoon-Mo (No. 301)
Jeju Prison, 161 Ora 2-dong, Jeju City, Jeju, the Peace Island, Korea

More picture on the Jeju Naval base protest here