North Korea Condemned For Treating Prisoners As Worthless Beasts
By Our Reporter
A
new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has pinned the North Korean government on
treating detainees as worth less than animals.
The
HRW report documents torture, lack of due process and rampant corruption in
North Korea’s pretrial detention system to the detriment of detainees.
Torture,
humiliation, coerced confessions and hunger appear to be “fundamental
characteristics” of the North Korean pre-trial detention system, Human Rights
Watch (HRW) said on Monday, citing testimonies from former officials and
detainees held in the country since Kim Jong Un took power in 2011.
HRW’s
88-page report adds to the documentation of widespread rights abuses in North
Korea’s opaque criminal justice system by United Nations investigators, who in
2014 said the country’s supr...