Victim NP-0111

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: North Korea

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Victim NP-0111

Extra Bio Info:

Victim NP-0111 is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role. 

In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0111 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 confined him at Onsong County MSS Detention Center, where individuals are subjected to degrading treatment, prolonged stress positions, deprivation of food and water, and inhumane sanitation conditions. 

Authorities sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment in a political prison camp.