93.
Please clarify the Korean government’s position on the opinion that
article 297 of the “Criminal Act” should be amended so that sexual
intercourse without free consent of the victim can be defined as a rape with
appropriate sanctions.
94.
Please defined the Korean government’s position on the amendment
of “Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, Etc. of Crimes of
Domestic Violence” so that the priority is to be the safety of victims and their
families.
95.
Please present domestic and international measures to prevent new
forms of violence such as digital sexual crimes (online sexual violence), as
well as specific remedies for victims to remove and block criminal content
upon request of the victims. In addition, please provide measures to prepare
educational programs to raise awareness of the severity of digital crimes.
Issue 11: Information Sharing for Prevention of Abuse of Emergency
Arrest and its Monitoring
Status
96.
The Committee was concerned that “persons who urgently arrested
without warrant are not afforded in practice all the fundamental legal
safeguard” in the concluding observation on the second (2006) and third to
fifth (2017) periodic reports of Korea.
97.
The “Criminal Procedure Act” stipulates arrest with warrant (art.
200-2) and exceptions for the doctrine of warrant: emergency arrest (art. 200-
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