「NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA ACT」
(3) and (4) of this Act shall apply mutatis mutandis.
(6) No staff member of the relevant confinement or caring facility shall participate in an
interview which a commissioner or staff member of the Commission holds with an internee
who has filed a petition (including any internee who intends to do so), or shall hear or
record the content of such interview: Provided, That the said staff may watch the internee
at a distance of visibility.
(7) No public official concerned, etc. shall peruse a petition or written document prepared
by an internee for the purpose of presentation thereof to the Commission.
(8) Measures which a confinement or caring facility shall take to guarantee the free
preparation and presentation of a petition by an internee and other necessary procedures
and methods, shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.
[This Article Wholly Amended on May 19, 2011]
Article 32 (Rejection of Petition, etc.) (1) The Commission shall reject a petition which falls
under any of the following subparagraphs:
1. Where the content of the said petition does not fall under the scope of matters subject
to the investigation of the Commission;
2. Where the content of the said petition is deemed manifestly false or ill-founded;
3. Where the said petition is filed by any person other than a victim, and it is manifest that
the victim does not want an investigation;
4. Where the said petition is filed after one or more years have elapsed since the fact
causing the petition occurred: Provided, That this shall not apply to any case in which the
prosecution or civil prescription with respect to such fact has not been completed and
which the Commission determines to investigate;
5. Where the trial at a court or the Constitutional Court, the criminal investigation by an
investigation agency or the procedures for remedies for infringement of rights under any
other Act are in progress or terminated with respect to the fact causing the petition, at
the time when the said petition is filed to the Commission: Provided, That this shall not
apply where the Commission receives a petition against cases identical with those falling
under crimes of Articles 123 through 125 of the Criminal Act which are being recognized
and investigated by the investigation agency;
6. Where the said petition is filed under any pseudonym or anonym;
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