Intense debate within the Human Rights Commission over the scrapping of the recommendation to ‘guarantee the right to defense of Yoon Seok-yeol’, decided to submit it at a later date

National Human Rights Commission Chairman Ahn Chang-ho is attending the 13th plenary committee meeting in 2026 held at the National Human Rights Commission in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 13th. Reporter Jeong Hyo-jin The National Human Rights Commission discussed the issue of scrapping the ‘Recommendation to Guarantee the Right to Defense of Yoon Seok-yeol’ that was passed last year, but was unable to reach a conclusion after intense internal debate. On the 13th, the Human Rights Commission held its 13th plenary committee meeting and ‘discarded the recommendation to guarantee President Yoon Seok-yeol’s right to defense and apologized to the public…’