Gender: Male

Perpetrator: North Korea

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Victim NP-0057

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Victim NP-0057 is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

In 2008, Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0057 for smuggling pages of the Bible into North Korea from a Christian church in China. Authorities interrogated him extensively and sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment at Hwasong Political Prison Camp (No. 16).

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: North Korea

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Victim NP-0036

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Victim NP-0036 is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

In 2014, Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0036 for his Christian faith and evangelism. Authorities confined him at Kimjongsuk (Sinpa) County MSS detention center and held him incommunicado.

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: North Korea

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Victim NP-0022

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Victim NP-0022 is imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In 2011, Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0022 in Nampo, South Pyongan Province, and sentenced her to prison at a political prison camp for her religious activity.