The Japanese imperialists who occupied Korea in the last century fabricated all sorts of evil laws to suppress the Korean people for fear that they might study a progressive idea and turn out in the struggle for regaining their lost country.

The "Korean Political Offender Probation Ordinance" is one of such evil laws.

The Japanese imperialists fabricated and promulgated it as "Regulations" No. 16 in order to check the anti-Japanese struggle of the Korean people further strengthened in the mid-1930s.

Lecturer Song Kyong Sim at the Central Class Education House said the "Korean Political Offender Probation Ordinance" enforced from December 1936 was made by revising for the worse the "Political Offender Probation Ordinance" being enforced in Japan at that time, and disclosed its reactionary nature as follows:

"The law stipulated that offenders against the 'Public Peace Maintenance Act' who were granted a stay of execution, exempted from prosecution and those who were released from prison or paroled were the objects of 'probation'. They were limited from their free actions including residence, social intercourse and correspondence and their every action always observed and controlled.

On the basis of the law, the Japanese imperialists set up 'political offender probation offices' in major cities such as Pyongyang, Hamhung, Chongjin and Sinuiju and took the objects of 'probation' to the offices at any time to force them to be 'imperial subjects'.

In addition, they fabricated the 'Korean Political Offender Preventive Detention Ordinance' crueller than the 'Korean Political Offender Probation Ordinance' in February 1941, further intensified the suppression of the objects of 'probation' and enforced the system of 'preventive detention'."

Japanese imperialists forcing Korean people to be "imperial subjects"

Korean people taken to execution ground

The "preventive detention" was a so-called "preventive step" to imprison a person likely to be dangerous even though he didn't commit a crime.

By invoking such evil laws, the Japanese imperialists indiscriminately arrested and detained all those getting on their nerves as well as the patriots registered as "those on the blacklist", "persons with seditious idea" and "insubordinate persons" and severely suppressed and executed them.

Due to such vicious colonial laws, a lot of people were taken to prisons and "political offender probation offices" on the charge of "political offender" and put to the harsh torture for conversion before being cruelly killed.

The open number of those who were taken to prisons and "political offender probation offices" by the Japanese imperialists on the charge of "political offender" amounted to more than 92,580 in 1936 and over 165,300 in 1938 and many people were slaughtered by severe torture forcing conversion.

Indeed, the "Korean Political Offender Probation Ordinance" fabricated by the Japanese imperialists was a murderous evil law for arresting, detaining and executing all the Koreans opposing their colonial rule even a little and it was a product of the harsh fascist oppressive rules.