Navy base opponents excluded from pardon list
Trials still underway for dozens of Gangjeong residents

In what was a shock to many, the Moon Jae-in administration did not include Gangjeong base opponents among the list of people it pardoned.

The national government on Friday granted pardons to over 64-hundred people, including those involved in a brutal crackdown on evictees in a Seoul redevelopment district.

463 Gangjeong residents who had received varying degrees of punishment for their actions in opposition to the construction of a navy base in their community did not make the cut. Neither did opponents to the Milyang transmission tower on the mainland.

Analysts say trials are still underway for some 100 people involved in the navy base opposition, and that’s why the group as a whole was left off the pardon list.

문재인 정부 첫 특별 사면…강정 주민 '제외'

문재인 정부 들어 첫 사면 대상자가 발표된 가운데 기대를 모았던 강정 주민들은 제외됐습니다.

정부는 오늘(29일) 새해를 앞두고 용산참사 관련 활동가와 주민 25명을 비롯한 6천 444명에 대해 특별사면을 단행했습니다.

하지만, 강정 민군복합형관광미항 건설 반대 주민과 활동가 463명은 밀양 송전탑 주민들과 함께 사면 대상에서 제외됐습니다.

이는 아직 100여 명에 대한 재판이 진행중이고 형이 확정되지 않은 상태여서 사면 대상에서 제외된 것으로 전해졌습니다 .