China: No Letup in Forced Returns to North Korea

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Chinese paramilitary police at the Beijing airport prepare for the departure of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 20, 2018. © 2018 Greg Backer/AFP via Getty Images (Seoul) – Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of persecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.The Chinese government’s forced return of North Koreans puts them at high risk of torture, wrongful imprisonment, sexual violence, forced labor, and possible execution, in violation of international human…

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