Eritrea begins European offensive in Germany
...human rights”; the UN says 5,000 people leave Eritrea every month. Eritrea, politically isolated for years, and often called the “North Korea of Africa”, is the biggest source of asylum...
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Animation highlights N. Korea religious violations
...Korea (ICNK), a network of NGOs working towards freedom for N. Korea. Building on the UN Commission of Inquiry’s 2014 ‘landmark’ report, the animation explains that 24% of North Koreans...
U.S. pins N Korea atrocities on Kim
The U.S. government has, for the first time, officially pinned North Korea’s “serious human-rights abuses” upon Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un personally, as well as upon 14 high-ranking officials in the...
Human rights must not ‘go down’ because ‘EU has other priorities’
...the EU can have. The countries listed in this group are: China, Eritrea, India, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Brunei, Maldives. Each country has one...
Pew reports decline in religious restrictions
...Christian, including Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. However, North Korea, No. 1 on the World Watch List for 14 years in a row, was not considered due to a reported lack...
Freedom of religion or belief ‘undermined’ in corrupt countries
...Crown dependencies – such as notorious tax havens British Virgin Islands and Jersey – did not sign the pledge. Which are the world’s most corrupt countries? Somalia and North Korea...
Pastor who helped N. Korea defectors found dead
...says The Telegraph, quoting Yonhap, the official Korean news agency. Korean-Chinese pastor Han Choong Yeol, 49, well-known for helping North Korean defectors, left his home in Chiangbai, a Chinese town...
US religious-freedom report urges government to add 7 countries to worst-offenders list
...particular concern”: Myanmar; China; Eritrea; Iran; North Korea; Saudi Arabia; Sudan; Turkmenistan; and Uzbekistan. Tajikistan’s recent addition brings the list to 10. Selected report findings The 12-month period covered by...
Foreigners in North Korea – what to expect if arrested
...has just completed his 100th day in prison. Korean Christians re-settled in North America are known to be vulnerable to arrest when visiting the country on mission work. The Korean-Canadian...
North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ labour
...North Korean officials in New York to urge Warmbier’s release on humanitarian grounds. Human Rights Watch condemned the verdict: “North Korea’s sentencing of Otto Warmbier to 15 years hard labour...