Albano Beqollari

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[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

Dr. Hak Ja Han Was Arrested After Heart Surgery Then Sent Back After Each Collapse.

Dr. Hak Ja Han, known to her church as the Mother of Peace, received a two-year term that, in practice, need not end when the days that count never start.

She was arrested on September 23, 2025, on grounds she might flee or destroy evidence.

She already had medical conditions and had undergone heart surgery weeks earlier.

There was no final conviction then. More than six months in a detention cell followed before a verdict.

November 2025 brought late-stage glaucoma and a risk of blindness.

She had surgery and was returned to jail on November 7. Early 2026 brought three falls. Painkillers were no longer enough.

A torn rotator cuff and a fractured shoulder were confirmed in hospital, not in the cell. On April 14 she had surgery under general anesthesia.

Counsel asked for two months of rehab. The court granted a month at a time.

The latest hospital window runs until 6 p.m. on September 30, 2026.

Criminal Act Article 57 credits pretrial detention one day for one day in jail.

Hospital-suspension days generally do not. The sentence is not final, so the clock has not started.

If the days that count have not begun, what still makes two years a finished term?

[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

1981 Fought as a Witch Hunt; 2026 Opened With an Apology Then an Appeal.

Seoul Central District Court sentenced Dr. Hak Ja Han to two years on August 31, 2026. Prosecutors had asked for 13.

She denied authorizing or joining any unlawful act. Lawyers said they will appeal. The organization said it cannot accept the ruling.

The public line was quieter. After the September 2025 arrest warrant, the church said it humbly accepted the court’s decision and apologized for causing concern.

On verdict day it apologized again, then said it would appeal.

That is not how the same movement answered in 1981. When the United States indicted Reverend Sun Myung Moon, officials called it a religious witch hunt the same day.

He flew back, pleaded not guilty, and more than 5,000 people filled Foley Square. Clergy who rejected his theology still stood with him.

They posted bail, fought in court, and built a coalition that put Jerry Falwell on a platform with figures tied to the ACLU. The legal questions differ.

Then the fight was whether money in the founder’s name was his or the church’s. Now it is whether a leader knew and approved a subordinate’s acts.

What the court heard on knowledge was the executive who committed the wrongdoing. No core physical evidence of her knowledge was presented.

A first-instance verdict is not the last word. Other Korean religious leaders are also answering prosecutors.

If clergy once treated the next target as their own, what still justifies apology first and defense second?

[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

The Old Argument Returns: Freedom Is Not a Mood. It Is a Record.

A short film restates a Cold War claim that South Korean politics never fully retired.

Communism, it says, is not a misunderstood social policy. It is a system that produced more death than any rival experiment, with a century-scale toll put at 100 million.

Freedom, in this telling, is precious because it can be spent. Evil is named as something that must be faced, not managed with softer words.

The numbers are historical estimates, not a current body count on a Seoul street. The reason the clip still travels is local.

Debates over alliances, church law, security drills, and constitutional language keep colliding with a simpler question: whether the republic still treats liberal democracy as a hard inheritance or as branding.

A society that forgets the ledger of the last century will not notice when the next proposal arrives dressed as reform.

If a system’s record is written in millions of graves, should the next generation argue only about tone—or about whether that record is still allowed to teach?

[UnificationNews @UnificNews]

Pompeo: Mother Han (83) Targeted for Her Beliefs
https://t.co/63jSiwrPYx
#SouthKorea, #FFWPU, #unificationchurch, #HakJaHan

[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

We must protect America as well as Korea and Japan from Communism.

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, the 83-year-old spiritual leader of the global Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, was sentenced to two years in prison Monday after being found guilty this year of embezzlement and bribery of a former first lady and a former lawmaker. https://t.co/A34dlMljMo

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

The sentencing of religious leader Dr. Hak Ja Han to two years in prison is deeply troubling for anyone who cares about religious liberty and free expression.

My full statement:

https://t.co/VnbbaaiNqy

[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

Statement from 70th Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the Sentencing of Dr. Hak Ja Han

"The sentencing of religious leader Dr. Hak Ja Han to two years in prison is deeply troubling for anyone who cares about religious liberty and free expression. The evidence suggests that Dr. Han was targeted for her religious and political beliefs.

Dr. Han has never been charged with so much as a parking ticket in her life, yet has already been detained for nearly a year in terrible conditions despite her advanced age and health problems.

This is a betrayal of South Korea’s hard-won democratic values. I pray that the government of South Korea reconsiders this case on appeal and does not go further down the path of religious persecution."

@mikepompeo
https://t.co/Po1IO7alLE

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

Can you imagine arresting an 82 year old Great Grandmother who is recovering from heart surgery, holding her in isolation, refusing to allow her to have visitors and then indicting her. Mother Han (Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon) is known as the Mother of Peace to millions of followers in the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. She has dedicated 6 decades to the cause of peace. Her arrest by the new Lee government is an assault on freedom of religion. President Trump and the entire weight of the American government should be brought to bear to force the Lee Government to stop this religious persecution and abuse of an 82 year old dedicated activist for peace and religious liberty.

[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

「チャーリー・カーク氏が殺害される前、最後に全力を注いでいたのは韓国の宗教迫害の問題でした」

「彼は韓鶴子総裁の状況を、きわめて直接的に案じていました」

「そして韓国政府が次第に反宗教的、親共産主義的になりつつあると見ていました」

ニュート・ギングリッチ@newtgingrich 元米下院議長の発言です。

韓鶴子総裁の裁判を報道に出てくるままに見ていては、本質を見落とします。 世界中の人々が、必ず知るべき内容です。

[Massimo Introvigne @Introvigne]

Mother Han’s case in Korea. She was sentenced to 2 years rather than the absurd 13 years requested by the prosecutor. But she is innocent and should have been acquitted

https://t.co/W3VY3Ln0y3

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

I’ve begun a multi-month journey across North America to deliver a message that can’t wait.

We’re in a real battle, and it’s time to name it: a global war on God.

America is still God’s hope. If that’s true, then so are you.

What happens here will shape the future of Korea, Japan, and the world.

This is not the time for silence.

It’s time to stand on higher ground, knowing who we are, why we’re called, and what���s at stake.

#FaithFreedomPeace #HigherGroundTour2026 #GodsDreamOneFamily

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

The Mother of Peace should be free to travel the world. Free to be with family. But they believe it’s better for their nation to lock her up.

No matter what… we are with you Mother.

#FaithFreedomPeace

[Season@綾瀬 @shojisoe]

【創価学会員が「旧統一教会信者への拉致監禁」を語る】

これは教団を擁護するか、批判するかという話ではない。

後藤徹氏は12年5カ月もの間、脱会を迫られながら自由を奪われ、その違法性は民事裁判でも認定された。

問われるべきはただ一つ。
「社会から批判される宗教の信者なら、人権を侵害しても許されるのか？」

嫌いな宗教にも、異なる信仰にも、人権と信教の自由はある。

創価学会員という“外側”から語られるからこそ、この動画は一度見てほしい。

#信教の自由 #人権 #拉���監禁 #家庭連合 #旧統一教会

https://t.co/kZ9AXCIuk9 @YouTubeより

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

Speaker Gingrich asked me some important questions… check out podcast on https://t.co/LnsCPTRKj2

[Albano Beqollari @Albanob369]

The world must know who is Dr. Hak Ja Han! #motherofpeace

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

In a matter of hours, Dr. Hak Ja Han is expected to learn her fate in a South Korean courtroom. Prosecutors have asked for a 13-year prison sentence for the 83-year-old religious leader, who has denied the allegations against her.

I asked Dr. Demian Dunkley to join me on Newt’s World because people need to understand who Dr. Han is, what has happened to her, and why I believe this case is about far more than one woman or one church.

I believe there is a global war on God taking place in plain sight, and Dr. Han has found herself in the middle of it. Before the court rules, I hope you will listen to this important conversation. https://t.co/OSlEhZPQGJ

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

Ambassador Randy Evans joins me for an urgent conversation about what’s happening in South Korea — and why he believes people of faith everywhere should be paying attention.

#ReligiousFreedom #SouthKorea #FaithFreedomPeace

https://t.co/VNJD3OotWH

[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

On a single day, a mother is taken from her home. Fifty-three people vanish in one city. More than two hundred are arrested across others.

In China, believing in God means facing arrest at any time. One person she used to gather with received eight years and ten months. She was forced to flee the country.

Then the state followed her out. Photos of Julia at a charity event in Italy were posted four times on a Chinese intelligence site.

Return within a week, they said—or they will strip her legal identity and turn her into a black household.

These are the stories too often left outside the frame. We created this series so they could no longer be ignored.

YOU’RE NEXT: DO NOTHING

Episode 1 — Inside the Machine

Premieres August 28 at 8 PM ET on YouTube, X, and Facebook.

Three countries. Three episodes. China is where it begins.

[Faith Freedom Peace @FaithFreePeace]

Ambassador Randy Evans joins Demian Dunkley for an urgent conversation about what’s happening in South Korea — and why he believes people of faith everywhere should be paying attention. Podcast premieres August 28 at 7 PM ET. https://t.co/2OZ8NK4q0l #ReligiousFreedom #SouthKorea #FaithFreedomPeace
@DemianDunkley
@AmbRandyEvans

[The Monarch Report @monarchreport25]

North Korea Recasts the South as an Enemy State, Not a Divided Family.

About 26 million people in the Seoul area live roughly an hour from a force whose leader now calls them the principal enemy.

In 2024 Kim Jong-un discarded the old “one people, wrongly divided” line, abolished unification agencies, dynamited inter-Korean roads and railways on camera, and later removed unification from North Korea’s constitution.

He did not drop the claim that the South could be occupied in war. He dropped the courtship.

Satellites have since shown new tactical roads pushed toward the Military Demarcation Line.

Under a nuclear doctrine that already contemplates first use, treating the South as an enemy state rather than kin removes a political restraint that lasted seven decades.

Court records in the South show both real infiltration cases tied to Pyongyang handlers and a high rate of acquittal in security-law trials.

Precision matters: inflating every domestic opponent into an agent cheapens the warning about an army 60 kilometers away.

If the North has closed the unification file and opened new roads to the line, what should public debate hold onto—slogans about the other side, or the documented change in doctrine, infrastructure and law?