by admin_HRWF | Dec 3, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
RFA (20.11.2020) – https://bit.ly/3ql8K5p – North Korea has released some 7,000 labor camp prisoners under an amnesty, but ordered local cash-strapped governments and impoverished residents to foot the bill for housing and feeding the ex-convicts, sources...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 15, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
By Hyemin Son, Leejin Jun and Eugene Whong Radio Free Asia (12.06.2020) – https://bit.ly/3fBQ8b9 – North Korea’s State Security Department is hunting down and arresting residents who spoke positively of defectors and refugees who have escaped to...
by admin_HRWF | May 26, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
By Jieun Kim, Leejin Jun and Eugene Whong Radio Free Asia (22.05.2020) – https://bit.ly/2B2ABlz – North Korean authorities earlier this month executed a husband and wife for attempting to flee the country during the COVID-19 national emergency...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 20, 2019 | Human Rights in the World
Radio Free Asia (23.10.2019) – https://bit.ly/2KFlYXf – North Korean authorities are forcing workers dispatched to China to work grueling overtime schedules in the few remaining months they have left as legal workers overseas, industry sources told...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 19, 2019 | Human Rights in the World
Radio Free Asia (15.11.2019) – https://bit.ly/2rVAbc1 – Cellular phones are the single most important tool for North Koreans making the risky trek to South Korea through China and other Asian countries, according to the head of a South Korean NGO...
