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Added on the 12/01/2022 - Copyright : tv shinjuku
Seoul, Jun 7 (EFE/EPA).- South Korea's Central District Court dismissed Monday a damages suit filed by 85 South Korean victims of wartime forced labor in Japan and their families against 16 Japanese companies, saying the plaintiffs don't have litigation rights. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN). SHOT LIST: VICTIMS OF JAPAN'S FORCED LABOR DURING THE JAPANESE COLONIAL RULE OF KOREA (1910-45) ARRIVE TO HEAR A COURT'S RULING AT THE SEOUL CENTRAL DISTRICT COURT IN SEOUL,SOUTH KOREA.
Protesters, including labour victim Yang Geum-deok, gather in front of the National Assembly in Seoul holding anti-government placards after South Korea announced plans to compensate victims of Japan's forced wartime labour. IMAGES
Canadian truckers stage a protest outside the parliament against Covid vaccine mandates, in Canada's capital Ottawa. The trucker-led protests have shut down central Ottawa for 14 days, trying to force the government to lift Covid-19 health regulations. The so-called Freedom Convoy began last month in western Canada -- launched in anger at requirements that truckers either be vaccinated, or test and isolate, when crossing the US-Canada border. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
The US conservative-majority Supreme Court is to hear challenges to President Joe Biden's bid to impose Covid vaccination mandates on millions of American workers. IMAGES