17 Personal Liberty Act, which provides relief to individuals whose personal liberty was unlawfully limited, explicitly excludes persons protected by the Immigration Control Act. In 2011, the NHRCK provided in the “Human Rights Guidelines on Migration” that a system should be put in place to protect, rights based on criminal judicature procedures since protection under Immigration Control Act is practically a form of constraining personal liberty. Question Are there any plans to provide a system to guarantee rights equivalent to criminal judicature procedures for foreigners in Immigration Processing Center under the Immigration Control Act? 13. Involuntary Hospitalization Under the Mental Health Act In January 2014, the Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed a completely revised bill for the Mental Health Act which includes ways to reduce the range of mentally-ill persons and strengthen the screening of the conditions for involuntary hospitalization and of the propriety of hospitalization. Currently, the bill is pending in the National Assembly. Meanwhile, in April 2014, the Ministry of Justice put forward the partly amended Protection of Personal Liberty Act, which introduces a protection officer who checks for persons unlawfully detained in facilities such as mental hospitals and helps them be released. This bill is also currently pending. According to the National Mental Health Commission’s 2012 report, among the 80,569 patients accommodated at mental health facilities, 75.9%, or 61,128 persons, were hospitalized involuntarily. Forced hospitalization rate in Korea is higher than that of other advanced countries which is lower than 20%, e.g., 17.7% in Germany,

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