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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict the practiced Juche ideology. [1]
North Korea: August 2024 [135] 20-30 party officials Corruption and dereliction of duty unknown method D Oman: 22 April 2024 [136] 3 unnamed men murder: firing squad: D Pakistan: 24 November 2019 [137] Brigadier Raja Rizwan: espionage and high treason: hanging: D Palestine: 20 July 2024 [138] July 2005 (Palestinian Authority) [139] 2 unnamed ...
The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (commonly referred to as NKDB) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, that conducts data collection, analysis, and monitoring of human rights violations experienced in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea). NKDB not only ...
Today there are six political prison camps in North Korea, with the size determined from satellite images [29] and the number of prisoners estimated by former prisoners and NGOs. [30] [31] Most of the camps are documented in testimonies of former prisoners and, for all of them, coordinates and satellite images are available.
For people who were executed by North Korea, see Category:People executed by North Korea. Pages in category "Executed North Korean people" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
He has since been released and allowed to return to the United States. According to the law of North Korea, such an act is punishable either by a life sentence in prison, or death. [4] In 2016, Otto Warmbier, an American college student, was arrested by North Korean authorities at Pyongyang International Airport, while ready to leave the ...
35,380 (North Korean claim) North Korea South Korea United States Air Force (North Korean claim) North Korea claims that the U.S. engaged in a large massacre that occurred over a 52 day period in Sinchon, North Korea. [3] [4] Sunchon tunnel massacre: October 1950 Pyongyang 68 North Korea [5] [6] Onsong concentration camp riot massacre May 1987
North Korea: New Satellite Images Show Blurring of Political Prison Camp and Villages in North Korea (ASA 24/004/2013) (PDF) (Report). 7 March 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-03-14. Democratic People's Republic of Korea: New Leadership but Human Rights Crisis Continues: Amnesty International Submission to the UN Universal ...