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.
During South Korea’s fourth cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on January 26, 2023, 31 countries made recommendations concerning the abolition of the death penalty and/or the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.