Nak-yeon Lee, CEO of the Democratic Party. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
– The court sentenced a jail sentence to a YouTuber in his 40s who was accused of broadcasting false information against the Democratic Party candidate Lee Nak-yeon, who ran for Jongno-gu, Seoul during the April 15 general election last year.
The 13th Criminal Agreement of the Uijeongbu District Law (Director Da-ju Jung) announced on the 3rd that he sentenced Mr. A (47), who was charged with violating the Public Official Election Act, to six months in prison.
On February 26, last year, Mr. A was handed over to trial on his YouTube channel for spreading false information with the aim of disqualifying the preliminary candidate at the time of Lee Nak-yeon.
According to the court, Mr. A was conducting a private broadcast in front of candidate Lee’s election office at the time ‘2018. 9. 26 A photo of the Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon was displayed on the screen, and insisted that “Candidate Lee has pledged allegiance to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un” and “Candidate Lee is a spy, a red man, and a lord.
“People shouldn’t believe their faces, they shouldn’t take pictures by looking at their faces,” he said. “With this data in the presidential election, you can campaign for defeat.”
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A guestbook written by Lee Nak-yeon, the leader of the Democratic Party, at the birthplace of Vietnam’s first President Ho Chi Minh on September 26, 2018, when he was in office as Prime Minister. Representative Lee at the time dismissed the controversy directly, saying that it was’fake news’ through social network service (SNS) as false claims spread online over his guestbook.
– However, this photo, contrary to Mr. A’s words, was the contents of a guestbook that candidate Lee left at the birthplace of Vietnam’s first president, Ho Chi Minh, while in office as prime minister. At the time, Candidate Lee attended the funeral of Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang and wrote in his guestbook, “Great but frugal, frugal but great, loved the people, and in front of the life of the President, who was loved by the people, we become infinitely small and ashamed.” .
In the course of the trial, Mr. A claimed, “I didn’t know it was false after being reported by the viewers, and there was no purpose to dismiss it,” but the court did not accept it.
The court said, “The defendant published and distributed a personal broadcast containing content that slandered the preliminary candidate’s ideological bias or transferability prior to the general election.” “The so-called’color theory’ debate caused the correct judgment of the voters. The crime is not very good because there is a high risk of doing it,” he explained the reason for the sentence.
Reporter Eunbin Kim [email protected]
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