Lee Hwa-young "I am a victim of state violence... I have never attacked President Lee"

“My regret is directed at the prosecution, not Lee”… Request for retrial on remittance to North Korea next week

Attorney Gwang-min Kim reveals details of meeting at detention center... ‘Parole dissatisfaction theory’ evolves again

(Suwon = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Sol = Lee Hwa-young, former vice-governor of Gyeonggi Province, who corrected her position when controversy arose over reports that she was dissatisfied with President Lee Jae-myung and requested his early release, came forward to explain again, saying, "I never attacked the president."

On the 14th, former Deputy Governor Lee's lawyer Kim Gwang-min revealed through social media the content of the conversation they had while meeting former Deputy Governor Lee at the Suwon Detention Center the day before.

Attorney Kim said in the article that former Deputy Governor Lee expressed his position, “I am a victim of state violence perpetrated by the illegal prosecution power.”

Attorney Kim then emphasized, "Former Deputy Governor Lee has never once attacked President Lee," and added, "What I wanted to say from the beginning was, 'I am a victim of a manipulated investigation, so I ask the state to correct the damage.'"

It appears that he was aware of the controversy that arose when Attorney Kim recently said in an interview on social media that "Former Deputy Governor Lee requested parole from President Lee, but he was angry because there was no movement."

In response, former Deputy Governor Lee issued a statement from prison on the 8th and explained, “It is different from the true intention.”

Attorney Kim said in a SNS post on this day, "The disappointment he felt was not directed at the president, but that the damage of state violence was being neglected for a long time," and "The investigation and punishment of Suwon District Prosecutors' Office, including prosecutor Park Sang-yong, who committed the violence, and by extension the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and Rep. Han Dong-hoon, who was the Minister of Justice at the time, is being delayed."

In addition, Attorney Kim added that he would apply for damages against former Deputy Governor Lee to the UN Human Rights Committee.

He continued, "The bribery case in which he was found guilty along with the North Korea remittance case was also a fabricated ruling, but Democratic Party lawmakers say the case is different because there was a personal bribery case." He added, "Former Deputy Governor Lee said, 'It is not polite to a comrade to criticize me as a briber.'"

Former Deputy Governor Lee is currently in prison after being sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in prison by the Supreme Court on charges of Ssangbangwool Group bribery and conspiracy to send money to North Korea. Last June, through a public participation trial, he was sentenced to an additional four months in prison on charges of perjury related to the 'salmon drinking party' appeasement claim.

The defense team plans to request a retrial at the Suwon High Court, which handed down the second trial in the Ssangbangwool remittance case to North Korea, next week, and has decided not to pursue other measures, such as parole.