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June 6, 2023

North Korea: toddler, parents jailed for life after being caught with Bible

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A two-year-old North Korean was sentenced to life in prison after officials found a Bible in the toddler’s parents’ possession, as the totalitarian regime continued to “execute” and “torture” religious worshippers. As many as 70,000 Christians are imprisoned in North Korea, according to a new Inter…

April 3, 2023

North Korea: torture, forced abortions and insects for food inside North Korean jails

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Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects.

January 11, 2023

North Korea: Camp 15 is reorganized to increase prison population

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Daily NK’s source responded to reports suggesting that the Yodok prison camp has been closed by saying that nothing of the sort has happened.

December 21, 2021

Corée du Nord : L’horreur des exécutions publiques

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March 22, 2021

North Korea: using prison labor to defy sanctions, rights group says

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North Korea has stepped up its use of forced labor from prison camps to mine coal for export so it can procure cash for its nuclear weapons program in defiance of United Nations sanctions, according to a human rights group.

February 24, 2021

North Korea: orders expansion of political prison camp system

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North Korea recently enacted an “anti-reactionary thought law” and is punishing violators with heavy sentences such as hard labor and the death penalty.

December 12, 2017

Las cárceles de Corea del Norte son peores que las nazis, dicen jueces internacionales

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April 30, 2017

Former guard reveals what life is like at a North Korean prison camp

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Lim Hye-jin described watching interned political dissenters set on fire, beheaded and shot dead en masse in collective punishment following escape attempts. Thousands of inmates in North Korean prison camps face beatings, summary executions, starvation and rape, a former guard has revealed.

December 5, 2016

North Korea : satellite images show prison camps accused of 'atrocities'

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Pyongyang has denied the existence of kwanliso prison camps, where the UN says inmates have faced starvation, forced labor, torture and rape.