By Jung Min-ho
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Wednesday that the Lotte Giants violated their players' human rights by keeping them under illegal surveillance.
Soon, the agency will ask Korea Baseball Organization Commissioner Koo Bon-neung to come up with preventive measures.
This came four months after the NHRC started looking into the allegations that the franchise installed surveillance cameras at its players' hotels when they traveled for road games from April to June of last year.
The panel said Giants' executives did so in cooperation with hotel managers to check what the players did after games. The players did not know about the cameras.
"The act is a violation of players' constitutional rights to privacy and freedom," the commission said in a press release. "We believe this is just one of the examples of how athletes are treated in Korea."
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Wednesday that the Lotte Giants violated their players' human rights by keeping them under illegal surveillance.
Soon, the agency will ask Korea Baseball Organization Commissioner Koo Bon-neung to come up with preventive measures.
This came four months after the NHRC started looking into the allegations that the franchise installed surveillance cameras at its players' hotels when they traveled for road games from April to June of last year.
The panel said Giants' executives did so in cooperation with hotel managers to check what the players did after games. The players did not know about the cameras.
"The act is a violation of players' constitutional rights to privacy and freedom," the commission said in a press release. "We believe this is just one of the examples of how athletes are treated in Korea."
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