1995 Goldman Prize recipient and President of the Korea Green Foundation, Yul Choi, has received a sentence of one year imprisonment from the Supreme Court of South Korea. The Korea Green Foundation and the Korea Federation for Environmental Movement are calling for Mr. Choi’s release, labeling his trial “politically biased, legally unjust and morally corrupt.”The Korean government of then-President Lee Myongback began investigating Choi in 2008, following his participation in a massive, nation-wide protest against the Four Rivers Restoration Project.As one of most prominent figures in Korea’s environmental movement, Choi’s sentence is seen by many in the international environmental community as a warning from the Korean government that civil uprisings will not be tolerated.Mr. Choi won the Goldman Prize in 1995 for leading a successful national campaign to stop the construction of a nuclear waste facility on Korea’s Anmyon Island. He is also credited for establishing Sout