Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0112 is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0112 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.