In North Korea execute people for drugs, distribution of South Korean videos and religious activities. This practice suppresses human rights and people’s freedom.
This is reported by the international news agency Reuters. South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean relations, released a 450-page report on testimonies collected between 2017 and 2022 from more than 500 North Koreans who fled their homeland.
“North Korean citizens’ right to life appears to be under serious threat. Executions are widely used for acts that do not justify executions, including drug-related crimes, distribution of South Korean videos, and religious and superstitious activities,” the statement said. . in the ministry report.
North Korea rejects criticism conditions of their rights, and called part of a conspiracy to overthrow their rulers.
The report details rampant violations of rights by the state in communities, POW camps and elsewhere, including public executions, torture and arbitrary arrests.
The ministry said that deaths and torture regularly occur in detention facilities, and some people were summarily executed after they were caught trying to cross the border.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said that the report should better inform the international community about the North’s “horrific” abusessaying that the DPRK does not deserve “no penny” of economic assistance as long as it pursues its nuclear ambitions.
Recall that Andrei Kolesnik, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, proposed introducing the death penalty for Russians who left Russia abroad and criticize their country and government from there. He called such people traitors.
As GLOBAL HAPPENINGS reported, earlier Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev also announced the return of the death penalty in Russia. According to him, this type of punishment can be returned if the danger of serious crimes goes off scale or there is wartime.
Source: Obozrevatel
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