Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Shaman
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0065
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Victim NP-0065 is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2019, Ministry of People's Security officials detained NP-0065, a shamanistic practitioner, for his religious activities. Authorities sentenced him to life imprisonment in front of over 1,000 witnesses at a resident exposure meeting in Hyesan Square. Authorities mistreated Victim NP-0065, who is a person with a disability and who uses a wheelchair.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0064
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Victim NP-0064 is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On an unspecified date, Korean People's Army (KPA) and Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0064, a soldier in the KPA, for smuggling a Bible into North Korea. Authorities executed one of his parents and imprisoned him and his other family members indefinitely at a political prison camp.
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).