Coinciding with the fifty-fourth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, a conference was held on October 5, to examine the human
Open Joint Letter to President Xi Jinping Re: China s Forcible Repatriation of North Korean Refugees - China reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
We are writing to express our concern about the resumption of forcible returns of North Koreans detained in the People’s Republic of China to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea), which had stopped since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Human rights advocates are joining international efforts to step up pressure on Beijing ahead of the Asian Games in Hangzhou to cease its practice of forcibly repatriating North Ko.