Recalling that the Lee Myung Bak regime is contemplating setting free hundreds of criminals who committed irregularities and corruption such as reception of bribes on the occasion of the August 15 liberation day, speakers there deplored:

A lot of prisoners of conscience are still subject to pain in prisons and an increasing number of people are thrown behind bars for struggling for the right to existence and waging actions against war and for independent and peaceful reunification.

With nothing can the authorities justify their attitude of turning their faces away from the issue of releasing prisoners of conscience, they held, urging the Lee regime to bear deep in mind what people's judgment the preceding dictators faced.

At the end of the press conference, the organizations handed a written protest demanding the release of prisoners of conscience to the "Chongwadae."