"As soon as the death sentence is handed down..." disastrous tragedy of forced North Korean women [Now News]

U.N. human rights experts have sent a letter to the North demanding an explanation, saying they have obtained information that two North Korean women who were forcibly repatriated from China have been executed, the U.S. Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on the 7th.

Seven U.N. human rights experts, including U.N. Special Rapporteur on North Korean Human Rights, Elizabeth Salmon, sent a letter in November last year demanding clarification regarding information that North Korean authorities had put two North Korean women forcibly sent to the North to death and nine to life in prison.

According to the letter, North Korean authorities held an open trial in Cheongjin, North Hamgyong Province, in August last year, and sentenced A (43) and B (39) to death on charges of selling North Korean defectors in China to South Korea, operating adult entertainment facilities and prostitution.

The two women were some of the North Korean defectors China forced to defect to the North in October 2023, and were reportedly executed on the day of their death sentence, RFA reported.

The other nine North Korean women were sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in human trafficking in China and remain unaccounted for, it added.

"Their repatriation is a violation of the principle of prohibiting forced repatriation," U.N. human rights experts said in the letter, noting that "they were not guaranteed a fair trial and due process and were punished excessively."

This is because the charges of these women were immediately executed without the possibility of appeal, even though they did not meet the criteria for being sentenced to death.

Earlier, China forcibly repatriated hundreds of North Korean defectors who had been detained shortly after the closure of the Hangzhou Asian Games in October 2023.


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