Gender: Unspecified
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0397
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0397 is imprisoned for their religious activity and association.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0397, along with 29 other North Koreans, after they were refouled from China. Chinese authorities had discovered a Bible among the group and beat them when no one confessed to owning it. When they were refouled, North Korean officials confined NP-0397 and others at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center and subjected them to invasive cavity searches.
Authorities sentenced NP-0397 to indefinite imprisonment at a political prison camp.
Gender: Unspecified
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0396
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0396 is imprisoned for their religious activity and association.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0396, along with 29 other North Koreans, after they were refouled from China. Chinese authorities had discovered a Bible among the group and beat them when no one confessed to owning it. When they were refouled, North Korean officials confined NP-0396 and others at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center and subjected them to invasive cavity searches.
Authorities sentenced NP-0396 to indefinite imprisonment at a political prison camp.
Gender: Unspecified
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0395
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0395 is imprisoned for their religious activity and association.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0395, along with 29 other North Koreans, after they were refouled from China. Chinese authorities had discovered a Bible among the group and beat them when no one confessed to owning it. When they were refouled, North Korean officials confined NP-0395 and others at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center and subjected them to invasive cavity searches.
Authorities sentenced NP-0395 to indefinite imprisonment at a political prison camp.