Smee
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Location: Jeollanam-do
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 Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:23 am Post subject: Female Inmates in North Face Compulsory Abortion |
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Female inmates in North Korea are forced to have abortions while criminals are sometimes publicly executed, according to a South Korean lawyers� group.
The Korean Bar Association yesterday released a report on the human rights situation in North Korea, after two years of data collection and interviews with 100 North Korean defectors who came to the South after 2000.
According to the report, 90 percent of those surveyed said the North Korean law enforcement authorities do not abide by legal processes in arresting suspects or detaining them in jails.
About 22 percent of them experienced or heard from others that the authorities do not allow suspects to sleep during investigation, while 21.1 percent said torture was widespread. Some 17 percent directly or indirectly experienced abusive language and sexual harassment during investigation, and 17.5 percent underwent investigation for more than two months without an arrest warrant.
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``We researched North Korea�s human rights condition from the legal point of view for the first time. The world should make efforts to improve human rights there,�� Lee Kook-jae, member of the bar association, said.
The association has published reports on South Korea�s human rights every year since 1989, but this is the first time that it has released one on the North.
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200609/kt2006092922422811990.htm |
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