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Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, ... On January 2, 2016, Warmbier was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport while awaiting departure from North Korea.
SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier, who was arrested while visiting the country, to 15 years of hard labor on Wednesday for crimes against the ...
Otto Warmbier: 2 January 2016: 13 June 2017 [a] 529 Committing "hostile acts" against the DPRK by allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel. Released back in a vegetative state, later succumbing to injuries inflicted from "severe brain damage". [36] [37] Kim Sang-duk (Tony Kim) 21 April 2017: 9 May 2018: 384
It is now known that Warmbier has been in a coma since March 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after being arrested on charges of stealing an item with a propaganda slogan on it.
Here is a list of US nationals arrested in North Korea. Otto Warmbier. American student Otto Warmbier (centre) escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea on 16 March 2016 (AP)
In 2016, Otto Warmbier, an American college student, was arrested by North Korean authorities at Pyongyang International Airport, while ready to leave the country. Warmbier was part of an organized tour group that had toured the country before his arrest. North Korean authorities accused Warmbier of stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel.
“I beg that you see how I am only human,” Otto Warmbier pleaded tearfully at his February 2016 show trial in Pyongyang. The University of Virginia honor student sat in judgment beneath gold-framed portraits of the Kim family, tugging occasionally at the fratty summer jacket he wore over his parti-colored shirt.
American college student Otto Warmbier, who was detained in North Korea for nearly 13 months, has died, according to a statement from his family.