Credit: Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji
A woman reads messages on yellow ribbons dedicated to dead and missing passengers of the sunken ferry Sewol, at Seoul City Hall Plaza in Seoul May 19, 2014.
Most of the passengers were children from the same school on a field trip who stayed in their cabins as they were told while surviving crew members, including the captain, were caught on video abandoning ship.
Mourning family members packed the court in Gwangju, the closest city to the scene of the disaster, as the 15 were led in and seated in two rows of benches.
One relative held up a sign that read: 'You are not human. You are beneath animals.'
An altercation arose between the relatives and court security guards who tried to take the sign away.
The captain and three senior crew members were charged with homicide in May facing a maximum sentence of death. Two are charged with fleeing and abandoning ship that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Nine are charged with negligence, that also carries a maximum sentence of jail.
The 15 have been in detention since their indictments and appear to have been tried and convicted by an angry public even before the trial began.
(Editing by Jack Kim and Nick Macfie)
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