North Korea: Fears for forcibly returned North Koreans

Index Number: ASA 24/002/2012
Date Published: 28 February 2012
Categories: North Korea

At least nine North Koreans have reportedly been forcibly returned from China to North Korea where they are at serious risk of arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment, enforced disappearance, forced labour, and death. Other North Koreans currently detained in China are also in danger of being forcibly returned to North Korea.