The statement recalled that on August 29 the security authorities issued a warrant of arrest for three members including the chairman of Jongyojo for the mere reason that they took the lead in Jongyojo's campaign for publishing a declaration on the situation and the campaign for leaving school early, etc.

It is an all-out politically-motivated suppression of Jongyojo, the statement said, adding the action of Jongyojo can never be punished as it is a legitimate exercise of its right.

The "government's" indiscriminate suppression will be recorded in history as an act of trampling down the freedom of expression, it charged.