Human Rights Commission raised the issue of "Presidential Defense Rights"...be overcome with opposition

[Anchor]
The National Personnel Authority was crippled in the face of opposition from civic groups and human rights officials when it tried to deliberate on an agenda that calls for guaranteeing the president's right to defend Yoon Suk Yeol in martial law-related trials.

The agenda was controversial because it contained the president's own authority to declare martial law and that the opposition party's excessive motion for impeachment was rather a controversy over the constitution.

I'm reporter Lee Hyun-jung.

[Reporter]
"Resign immediately, Human Rights Commissioner for the Coalition for Insurrection! Resign, resign, resign!"

In front of the meeting of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, there is strong opposition ahead of the deliberation on "the recommendation of the country's countermeasures to overcome the crisis caused by the declaration of martial law."

Civic groups and human rights officials protested the news that an agenda was proposed to recommend the guarantee of the president of Yoon Suk Yeol's right to defend himself.

They blocked the members who co-sponsored the agenda at the entrance of the conference hall, and the scene turned into a chaos.

The proposal, which was proposed by five members of the Human Rights Commission, including Kim Yong-won, Han Seok-hoon, Kim Jong-min, Lee Han-byeol and Kang Jeong-hye, was controversial due to the fact that "the martial law is the president's own authority" and that "the abuse of the opposition's impeachment motion is a national constitution."

[Lee Byung-gu / Secretary-General of the Conscience and Human Rights Tree: If an agenda is proposed and resolved to defend the forces of civil war that tramples on human rights, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea will lose its meaning.]

Kim Yong-won, who led the agenda, countered that the opposition party's unilateral claim that it was a rebellion and that the president, who is a suspect, also had human rights.

[Kim Yong-won / Standing member of the NHRC: Every Korean citizen has the right to defend himself after being investigated or tried without detention. It's the same for serious crimes.]

After more than an hour of confrontation, Ahn Chang-ho, chairman of the Human Rights Commission, and members of the committee turned away.

The full committee can be held only when a majority of the 11 members of the committee are present, but it was eventually disrupted without being held.

Amid the continued backlash, the Human Rights Commission plans to hold a plenary committee meeting again on the 20th to try to deliberate on the agenda.

I'm Lee Hyunjung of YTN.