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News in Brief ( April - June 2006 ) Law on Penal Institutions and Treatment of Prisoners Was Amended Amendments to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law Passed the Diet First Session of the Human Rights Council Was Held National Human Rights Commission of Korea Comments on "Sexist" Provisions in Local Ordinances in Incheon City Prosecution Introduces Partial Recording and Videotaping of Interrogations on a Trial Basis Permanent Residents Vote for the First Time in Unified Local Elections in South Korea Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture Will Come into Force in June Amended Immigration Control Act Requires Foreigners Living in And Coming to Japan to Provide Fingerprints and Mugshots on Arrival South Korea: Municipalities Intensify Support for Multicultural Families Government of Japan to Give up Submission of the Human Rights Protection Bill in the Present Diet Session