SEOUL: A South Korean court posthumously exonerated a man executed more than 70 years ago for assisting rebel forces, saying he had been wrongly convicted.

Chang Hwan-bong, then 29, was among hundreds of people who were accused of helping left-leaning soldiers in an armed uprising against the government in the southwestern cities of Yeosu and Suncheon in October 1948. They were sentenced to death just 22 days after their ­ arrest for rebellion and were executed immediately.

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