SEOUL - Over 200 people have been apprehended in South Korea for posting murder threats on various online over the past month, said the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - Over 200 people have been apprehended in South Korea for posting murder threats on various online over the past month, said the Korean National Police Agency on Thursday.The KNPA said that it has arrested 216 suspects on charges of writing such threats as at 9am on Thursday, reported Yonhap, adding that 21 of them have been placed under arrest.
On Thursday, South Korea’s Ministry of Justice said that the government would seek damages from suspects behind the online murder threats, according to The Korea Herald. Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon said the government will work to “seek both criminal and civil charges calling for damages” against the online threat culprits, saying such acts leave society panicked once they have occurred.
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