The organization said that it examined records of the case at that time after receiving a report by a resident in Taejon that he had unjustly served a prison term, being accused of violating the "Security Law" in 1986, witness statement, etc. As a result, the investigation was illegally made, the organization stressed.

It declared that through the request of a retrial it would urge the authorities to take the responsibility for spoiling the ordinary life of the resident and take issue with the indiscriminate application of the SL for suppressing the citizens at that time.