NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OFAnnual KOREAReport 2022 National Human Rights Commission of Korea  Remedies for Human Rights Violations From 2001 (establishment) to 2022 130,564 human rights violation petitions filed and 126,821 processed Human Rights Violation Petitions Filed and Processed in Recent Five Years �Unit���cases� 8,468 7,698 7,431 6,986 7,055 6,558 2018 7,684 6,825 6,637 6,346 2019 2020 filed 2021 2022 processed Human Rights Violation Petitions Processed in 2022 (Unit : cases) Remedies Filed Processed Subtotal Investigation requested / report to police Recommendations, etc. Closed by settlement Resolved during investigation Rejected Transferred Dismissed Investigation suspended 8,468 7,684 827 1 414 29 383 4,146 34 2,625 52  Key Decisions Related to Human Rights Violations • Excessive use of handcuffs during police interrogations • Harassment through unjustified deployment and extension of deployment measures • Human rights violations due to overcrowding and excessive use of restraints in women's correctional facilities • Human rights violations resulting from inadequate protection of protesters by the police during rallies and demonstrations • Violations of personal rights, including dignity, during the course of obstetrics and gynecology treatment at university hospitals • Excessive human rights violations in a middle school due to the enforcement of school regulations • Human rights violations in disability residential facilities, including abuse of disabled residents and concealment of incidents • Human rights violations resulting from the nonprovision of discharge examination applications and procedural assistants • Violations of the right to life resulting from insufficient protection of abuse victims in the Navy • Unjust refusal to acknowledge the line-of-duty death for a police officer 208