Speakers said at the conference there took place a series of pardon in the five years of the Lee Myung Bak regime's office but not a single prisoner of conscience was pardoned.

All the prisoners of conscience who were arrested while struggling for independent reunification and the vital rights should be pardoned immediately, they demanded.

The organization issued a declaration.

The declaration said the Lee regime ruthlessly suppressed the people under the pretext of "establishing legal order," thus inflicting unbearable pain and sufferings upon them.

Many people were unreasonably thrown behind bars on the strength of such anti-human rights law as the "Security Law" and thousands of prisoners of conscience are now forced to live a subhuman life in cold prisons, it noted.

It is hypocritical to force ordinary people to abide by law, while unhesitatingly granting special pardon to criminals backed by power, it said, demanding the authorities unconditionally release all the prisoners of conscience.