On July 19, 2007, a group of 23 South Korean Christians in Kabul, Afghanistan were kidnapped by elements of the Taliban militia and held in exchange for the release of Taliban prisoners by the Afghan government.
On July 25 a male member of the group, 29-year-old Shim Sung-min, was found with 10 bullet holes in his head, chest and stomach in the Mushaki area of Qarabagh district in Ghazni province.
Subsequently, the body of a second hostage was discovered on July 31.
The Korean hostages are not prisoners or criminals. They are civilians who went to Afghanistan for humanitarian work.
MAS Freedom (MASF), as the civic and human rights advocacy entity of the Muslim American Society (MAS), through its Executive Director, Imam Mahdi Bray, issued the following public statement on July 31. A formal letter of condolence has also been sent to the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States. (http://www.masnet.org/takeaction.asp?id=4166)
"MAS Freedom completely condemns the taking and killing of South Korean Christian hostages in Afghanistan as not only a gross violation of the human rights of these captives, but also a horrible violation of the norms of basic human decency. These actions are completely contrary to the basic tenets of Islam, and for the sake of our Lord, we implore those who have taken these hostages to return them safely to their loved ones, and to stop this madness."
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