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World's Longest Held Political Prisoner Released

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News November, 1995, page 10
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International. Location: Korea, South.
On August 15, 1995, Kim Sun Myung was released from a South Korean prison after spending more than 43 years in captivity. Kim had the unhappy distinction of being the world's longest held political prisoner. Kim was captured 43 years and ten months ago in 1951 by American military forces ...

 

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