Upset by the action, the chief of the Office of Kangnam District, Seoul, who is Lee's cat's paw, let gangsters take by force the tents for hunger strike and assaulted the participants.

The hunger strikers asked why the body demanding Lee's arrest must be discontinued while the conservatives' sit-in strike to have Park Geun Hye released is allowed to go on for scores of days.

They called for throwing traitor Lee into prison at any cost through the indefinite hunger strike.