Speakers said that the SL was enforced under the pretext of "uprooting the left" 70 years ago, but, as a matter of fact, it was fabricated in accordance with the intention of foreign forces to divide the Korean Peninsula and dominate it.

This evil law has been used in branding democratic forces as "spy" and "the left" and cracking down them for a long time, they noted.

Saying that victims of the SL are the people, they urged the authorities to stop the investigation by the evil law and release all the prisoners of conscience.

A press release was read out at the press conference.

The press release said that the evil law against human rights and reunification should be abrogated in the peaceful era on the Korean peninsula, noting that there is no reason for SL to exist now when the south-north relations are developing.