UN report: North Korean prisoners killed for escape attempts

August 03, 2019 9:24 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in a new report on North Korea's grim human rights record that prisoners who tried to escape or steal have reportedly been publicly executed, and detainees have been subject to sexual violence and severely beaten with clubs and metal rods.

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