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In June 2019, a South Korean NGO the Transitional Justice Working Group released an unverified report "Mapping the Fate of the Dead" that suggested 318 sites in North Korea supposedly used by the government for public executions. [49] According to the NGO, public executions have taken place near rivers, fields, markets, schools, and sports grounds.
Prisons in North Korea ... Public and secret executions of inmates, including children, especially in cases of attempted escape, are commonplace. [6]
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 June 2019 a Seoul-based human rights group, the Transitional Justice Working Group, claimed to have identified at least 323 sites in North Korea, where public executions took place. [116] The group said the most common charges for execution ranged from "stealing copper and livestock" to "anti-state" activities and illegally crossing into China.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the execution of 15 senior officials this year as punishment for challenging his authority.
The Korea Institute for National Unification's 2014 White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea lists twelve public executions between 2004 and 2010 for the crime of murder. Murder victims included lovers, a spouse, a creditor, and a hospital administrator. [2]
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 ...
North Korea said on Wednesday it has issued a standing order for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her spy chief.