Gender: Female
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Victim NP-0218 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2003, North Korean authorities detained NP-0218 after she was refouled from China, where she engaged in Christian activities. Authorities confined her at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center, where detainees are subjected to forced nudity and invasive cavity searches, beatings, overcrowding, inhumane sanitary conditions, and starvation.