"We wonder whether those who receive Pastor Jin [Yong-Sik] knew that he also operated as a deprogrammer and was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Korea for taking part in illegal deprogramming. In 2020, [civil] rights activist Willy Fautré reported in a scholarly study of deprogramming in South Korea that. “In 2007, Pastor Jin Yong-Sik was prosecuted and found guilty for sending a member of the to a psychiatric institution. According to a news story published in Newshankuk on 24 October 2008, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison with two years’ probation for coercive de-conversion. In 2012, there was a public uproar when the investigation about his complaint against [civil] rights activists revealed that Pastor Jin had earned more than one billion won (850,000 EUR) with his de-conversion business.”"
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Massimo Introvigne, "Unholy Alliances: Korean Christian Fundamentalists and Chinese Intelligence United Against Refugees from China", Bitter Winter (October 17, 2024)
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