Experiments with truth: 10/21/09

    • In South Korea, a coalition of 23 groups, including the Migrant Workers Trade Union, protested in front of the Hwaseong Immigration Detention Centre in Gyeonggi Province last Friday. They were demanding the release of Minod Moktan, a 33-year-old Nepali musician and cultural activist who, like other migrant workers, is undocumented and has been the target for a government expulsion order.

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