Monthly Archives: March 2022
Basic Report on Human Rights Conditions in North Korea
On Feb. 16, Hiroshi Kato, Executive Director of LFNKR lectured on the abuse of human rights in North Korea in response to an invitation by the Working Team for Enhancing Human Rights Diplomacy and International Contribution of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
Based on the UN human rights report on North Korea 2014, Mr. Kato’s talk covered the specific human rights abuses still going on in North Korea according to actual experiences of North Korean defectors interviewed by LFNKR. So far, LFNKR has helped over 200 North Korean defectors to reach the destinations where they wished to resettle, including in Japan.
North Korean Refugees in Russian Detention Center
Here is an update regarding a number of North Korean refugees in whose rescue we have been participating.
Two of these North Korean refugees that had been imprisoned in the Vladivostok Foreigner Detention Center were released recently and arrived in Moscow two days ago. They had already applied for refugee status, but the Russian court had refused to recognize their refugee status, and thus they had been imprisoned in the foreigner detention center for two years.