Gender: Female
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: Yes
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0238
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0238 is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In 2009, North Korean officials arrested NP-0238 after China refouled her for meeting with Christians to study Christianity. Authorities confined her at North Hamgyong Provincial MSS Detention Center, where detainees are subjected to forced nudity, invasive cavity searches, severe beatings, and inhumane sanitary conditions. During detention, guards mocked her religion, forced her to crawl backwards out of her cell on her hands and knees, and beat her stomach repeatedly with a wooden club.
Authorities sentenced her to indefinite imprisonment at Chongjin Susong 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-0237
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0237 is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 1999, Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0237 for smuggling Bibles into North Korea from China.
Authorities imprisoned him indefinitely in 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-0150
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0150 is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2011, Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0150, a known public official, for being a member of an underground Christian church and possessing a Bible.
Authorities sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment in a political prison camp.