Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0105 is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0105 after he was refouled from China, where he had studied the Bible and become a religious leader amongst a group of North Koreans. When he arrived, North Korean authorities interrogated him at North Hamgyong Provincial MSS Detention Center, where detainees are subjected to forced nudity, severe beatings, and inhumane sanitary conditions.
Authorities sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment in a political prison camp.