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Court orders transparency over panel reviewing immigration detention

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A Seoul court has struck down the Justice Ministry's refusal to disclose who sits on a panel that reviews the continued detention of foreign nationals, finding no sufficient legal basis for keeping the membership secret. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of four lawyers specializing in migrant rights who challenged the Immigration Detention Review Committee's decision to withhold the names of all its members, according to local daily Kyunghyang Shinmun. The committee was established

First report: Supreme Court dismisses potentially significant immigration case that was scheduled for argument in October — scotusblog.com, 3d