Human rights violations against women deported to North Korea United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Report July 29, 7:44
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published a report on more than 100 women who have been repatriated after fleeing North Korea, claiming that human rights abuses such as violence and sexual assault would continue to other countries. We are asking not to send the North Korean defectors back to North Korea.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights interviewed about the situation in North Korea of more than 100 women who had been returned to their home countries from 2009 to 2019 after fleeing North Korea, and then were able to escape again, On 28th, we released the report.
According to this, after being detained by the North Korean authorities, the women were interrogated and tortured without any legal procedures, or were held in prisons where hygiene was poor and sunlight was barely exposed.
He was then forced into forced labor without adequate food supply, subjected to violence and sexual assault such as hitting and kicking, and in some cases was forced to abort.
Women deported in 2015 testified, "While in prison, five or six people died, mostly due to malnutrition."
Daniel Corinji, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a press conference on September 28 in Seoul, saying: "By publishing a report summarizing the voices of women, the North Korean government pressured them to improve the situation. I asked him to refuse to repatriate North Korean defectors to North Korea.