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Article: Environmental activist sues for travel ban lift.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- October 9, 2008
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SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) -- The head of a leading environmental organization, Korea Green Foundation, filed a suit against the prosecution Wednesday to lift a travel ban imposed after corruption allegations emerged against him. Prosecutors imposed the ban on Choi Yul, a fixture of Korea's environmental movement, last month while investigating allegations that he had diverted some of his group's corporate and public donations into stock investments over the past five years. Choi and civic organizations denounce the probe as a witch hunt to quell the civic community that has been spearheading protest movements against President Lee Myung-bak's growth-driven, pro-conglomerate ...