Gender: Female
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0115
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Victim NP-0115 is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In 2010, Ministry of People's Security officials imprisoned NP-0115 at Chongori Re-education Camp No. 12 for reciting the Apostle's Creed and the Lord's Prayer with another Christian convert. Detention authorities transferred her to another cell after she proselytized to other prisoners in the re-education camp.
Authorities re-sentenced her to indefinite imprisonment in a political prison camp for her religious "crimes."
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Shamanism
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0304
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Victim NP-0304 is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In 2019, Ministry of People's Security officials arrested NP-0304 for practicing shamanism and forced her into confession at a public exposure meeting.
Authorities sentenced her to imprisonment.
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Victim NP-0279
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Victim NP-0279 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0279, a minor at the time, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement in an underground church led by two families. Authorities confined her at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center, where female detainees, including children, are subjected to forced nudity and invasive cavity searches. Authorities transferred her to Chongjin Susong political prison camp indefinitely.