An inmate sentenced to 117 consecutive days in solitary confinement...Court "violation of human rights"

The court's first judgment came out that keeping correctional facility inmates in solitary confinement for a long time for violating internal regulations is a violation of human rights.

On the 31st of last month, the Seoul High Court ruled that some of the plaintiffs won a lawsuit filed by prisoner A against the National Human Rights Commission, asking him to cancel the dismissal.

The court judged that the act of consecutively putting inmates in solitary confinement violates human dignity and values guaranteed by the Constitution.

It also said the Nelson Mandela Rule, which was unanimously adopted by member states, including South Korea, at the 2015 United Nations General Assembly, declared that solitary confinement for more than 15 consecutive days should be banned, considering it no different from torture.

Mr. A, who is in prison after being sentenced to eight years in prison, has been in solitary confinement for 117 consecutive days since April 2019 for failing to comply with the prison guard's instructions.

A filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission about accepting solitary confinement for a long time, but it was not accepted, and he filed a lawsuit against it, but lost the first trial in July last year.