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Blog post 15 Jun 2010
- North Korea country profile
Under its leader Kim Jong-un, North Korea is violating every conceivable human right. The government represses all forms of freedom of expression and opinion and does not allow any organised political opposition, independent media, free trade unions,…
07 Feb 2014- North Korea: The inside story
Watch a prison guard speaking publicly for the first time about detainees being forced to dig their own graves and women being raped by visiting officials. We also have harrowing testimony from former prisoners talking about their ordeals.
17 Feb 2014- North Korea: North Korea: 'Appalling, systematic human rights abuses' overshadow 'day of sun'
Press release 11 Apr 2012- South Korea: Dramatic increase in targeting of people for 'pro-North Korean views'
Press release 29 Nov 2012- NORTH KOREA: Persecuting the starving
Press release 15 Dec 2000- North Korea, the surveillance state
The famously secretive and isolated state is severely punishing citizens who try to reach out and connect with the world beyond North Korea. Phones and computers connecting to the internet and allowing international calls are banned. When people take…
09 Mar 2016- Will family baton change, change North Korea?
Blog post 27 Sep 2010- North Korea: US journalists' conviction highlights unfair system
Press release 07 Jun 2009- CHINA/NORTH KOREA: Asylum seekers must be protected
Press release 26 Jun 2001- North Korea film: Amnesty releases 'The Other Interview'
Press release 04 Feb 2015- North Korea: New report reveals crumbling health system
Press release 14 Jul 2010- North Korea: Is change really around the corner?
At a time when the notoriously secretive state may be open to dialogue and senior officials are willing to talk about big issues such as nuclear weapons, could there be a permanent shift for North Korea?
Blog post 27 Apr 2018- China must stop returning people to North Korea
North Koreans are not allowed to travel abroad without state permission - an act viewed as treason and punishable by death. Despite the risks many do try and escape only to be illegally returned by China.
02 Sep 2014- UN report exposes North Korea human rights abuses
UN investigation exposes mass starvation, hundreds of thousands of people 'disappearing' and horrific tales of widespread public execution, torture and slavery - all at the hands of the North Korean government.
26 Mar 2014- South Korea accused of censorship for jailing man who wrote poem about North Korea
28 Nov 2023 Press release- Human Rights in North Korea: Amnesty International Media Briefing
Press release 07 Sep 2004- NORTH KOREA: Human rights under scrutiny at the UN
Press release 17 Jul 2001- Escape from a North Korean prison camp
Blog post 20 Mar 2012- Tales of woe - from the prison camps of North Korea
Blog post 13 Jul 2011 - North Korea country profile