Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0140
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0140 is imprisoned for his religious activity and association.
In 2015, North Korean Ministry of State Security officials abducted Chinese resident NP-0140 from China after he was caught housing South Korean missionaries in his home. The missionaries had led Bible study classes for North Koreans.
Authorities sentenced him to imprisonment.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0136
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0136 is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2014, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0136 after he was reported for possessing a Christian pamphlet. Authorities confined him at Musan County MSS Detention Center, where detainees are starved and subjected to inhumane sanitary conditions, and where Christians are beaten for praying and tortured for their religious beliefs. North Korean officials also arrested his immediate family members, including children.
Authorities sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment 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-0114
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0114 is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained and imprisoned NP-0114 after he was refouled from China, where he engaged in religious practice.
Authorities sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment at Chongjin Susong Political Prison Camp for his religious activities in China.