[sustran] FW: access for people with disabilities- request to support friends on hunger strike

[Paul Barter]

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From: rdo [mailto:rdo at dpiap.org] 
Sent: Sunday, 1 September 2002 4:09 PM
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Subject: Fw: Urgent request to support our friends on hunger strike



----- Original Message -----
From: "Shoji & Yuki Nakanishi" <yukin at din.or.jp>
To: "RDO RDO" <rdo at dpiap.org>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 2:59 AM
Subject: Urgent request to support our friends on hunger strike


>   Please support our friends who are on humgar strike.
>
> 　On 14 May 2002, a man on electric scooter fell from the lift at the
subway
> station in Seoul. He is the third victim who died.  According to the 
> Seoul Government who runs the line, his death was due to misoperation.  
> The City does not admit the responsibility for his death.  The very 
> simply made
lift
> should be operated by wheelchair users by themselves without station 
> -staff's assistance.
>
>    It is Mr. Park Koung Suk and one more wheelchair person who started 
> the hunger strike on 11 Aug, occupying a room of the National Human 
> Rights Commission.  The strike is still on because of stubborn 
> attitude of the city.  We are very much anxious of their health 
> condition.
>
>    Mr. Park organized the Struggle for Mobility Rights soon after the
first
> death at the subway station in Jan. last year.  He is a principal of 
> the Nodul night school for illiterate disabled adults, so that many member of
> the Struggle are his students and graduates.   During the strike the
> yvisited him from time to time and had one-day hunger strike one after 
> another.
>
>   Please support them to save their lives and lives of wheelchair 
> friends who have to use subway everyday. Mayor of Seoul 
> seoul at www.metro.seoul.kr Chairperson of Human Rights Commission 
> ckkim22 at humanrights.go.kr If you understand Korean, there is updated 
> information on http://access.jinbo.net/
>
>   Yukiko and Shoji Nakanishi
>
>