Execution Chamber of Freedom Fighter Ahn Found in Lushun.

From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)  |  Date: 7/8/2000

The execution chamber of patriot Ahn Chung-kun has recently been located at Imperial Japan's Lushun prison in China's northeastern port city of Dalian. The freedom fighter is reported to have hanged there at the age of 32 on March 26, 1910.

``We were able to find an old map of the prison in the archives of the Lushun tap water bureau. The map shows there was an indoor scaffold in the prison compound,'' Park Gui-eon, executive director of the Memorial Foundation for Patriot Ahn ...

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