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Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans,...
Chol Soo Lee (August 15, 1952 – December 2, 2014) was a Korean American immigrant who was wrongfully convicted for the 1973 murder of Yip Yee Tak, a San Francisco Chinatown gang leader, and sentenced to life in prison.
Aug 12, 2022 · Lee’s heartbreaking, remarkable, and undeniably complex story is the subject of Free Chol Soo Lee, a documentary by journalists and filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi that draws its name from...
Oct 18, 2023 · Watch the trailer and read reviews of this 2022 film that tells the story of Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee, who was falsely accused of a Chinatown gang murder in 1970s San Francisco. Learn how journalist K.W. Lee exposed the racism and corruption of the justice system and led a social movement to free Chol Soo Lee.
May 18, 2022 · After a series of investigative articles by journalist K.W. Lee of the Sacramento Union, a grassroots Free Chol Soo Lee movement led by Asian American activists mobilized to exonerate Chol...
Aug 11, 2022 · “Free Chol Soo Lee” tells the story of a wrongfully convicted man who, after spending nearly a decade in prison, was ultimately vindicated in court. But it isn’t an uplifting...
Aug 21, 2022 · I t was a notorious miscarriage of justice: a 20-year-old Korean immigrant, Chol Soo Lee, was found guilty of a Chinatown murder in San Francisco in 1973. But the...
