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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
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News UN refugee agency calls for China to give ‘humanitarian space’ to North KoreansLetter sent in July stressed severe treatment returnees face but failed to stop forced repatriation of 100s in October The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called on China to protect North Koreans living in the country earlier this year, months before Beijing reportedly deported hundreds of DPRK escapees, a newly released U.N. document shows. In the letter to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the UNHCR called on China to “acknowledge the severity of treatment issued to those returnees who are deemed to have left North Korea illegally.” © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |