In the press conference, speakers said that the authorities are deploying policemen in the Jindo Gymnasium and other parts and threatening those sponsors of the rally for honoring the memory of the victims of the ferry Sewol sinking disaster while watching bereaved families and citizens.

The Broadcasting and Communication Committee is enforcing news censorship and the ministries and agencies of the regime are quelling the people's anger through internet, they charged.

They urged the authorities not to encroach upon freedom of expression related to the ferry sinking accident.