Gender: Male

Perpetrator: North Korea

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Victim NP-0237

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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

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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.

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: North Korea

Religion or Belief: Shamanism

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Victim NP-0149

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Victim NP-0149 is imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In 2018, North Korean officials arrested NP-0149 for engaging in shamanistic practices and confined her in Sinuiju City MPS Office. 

Authorities sentenced her to imprisonment.