Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- More than 50 political parties and labor, human rights and public organizations of south Korea held a press conference in Seoul on August 4 denouncing the authorities for their fascist suppression.

Speakers at the press conference said that the number of the victims of the "National Security Law", a law against human rights, democracy and reunification, has sharply increased since the emergence of the present regime.

Hundreds of people, including progressive pro-reunification patriots, workers who turned out in the actions for vital rights and evacuees in Ryongsan, are kept behind bars with their grudge unsettled, they noted.

The people are coming out in the actions, cursing the society where the rich get richer and the poor poorer, they said, declaring that no matter how desperately the "government" may control media and intensify suppression, it cannot chill the desire of the people to live as human beings.

They demanded the authorities set free all the unreasonably detained prisoners of conscience without condition, reinstate them and sternly punish those in power and corruption suspects who deteriorated people's living.

They also demanded an immediate repeal of the NSL, a fascist law.