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North Korea publicly executed a 22-year-old citizen for listening to and sharing K-pop music and films, according to South Korea.. The man from the Hermit Kingdom's South Hwanghae province was ...
In October 2001, the North Korean government told the UN Human Rights Committee that "only 13" executions had occurred since 1998 and that no public execution had occurred since 1992. [1] On December 13, 2013, North Korean state media announced the execution of Jang Sung-taek, the uncle by marriage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. [6]
Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
According to Amnesty International, in 2012 "public executions were known to have been carried out in Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Somalia." [ 15 ] Amnesty International does not include Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen in their list of public execution countries, but there have been reports of public executions carried out there by state ...
[292] [293] There have been at least 64 carried out death sentences in 2016, and in 2017 five North Korean minister-level officials were executed; it is not known whether these officials were executed due to a judicial sentence or a direct order of Kim Jong-un. [294]
North Korea carries out public executions on river banks and at school grounds for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, a new report says.
In 2007 a UN General Assembly committee adopted a draft resolution, co-sponsored by more than 50 countries, expressing "very serious concern" at reports of widespread human rights violations in North Korea, including public executions. North Korea condemned the draft as inaccurate and biased, but it was still sent to the then 192-member General ...
For offenders of the Criminal Law of North Korea, the Supreme Court has recommended capital punishment. [27] Summary and arbitrary executions outside the procedure involving the Supreme Court take place in the country, too, [28] sometimes with torture leading up to a confession. [29] Trials of foreigners are always taken directly to the Supreme ...