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November 05, 2024
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UN refugee agency calls for China to give ‘humanitarian space’ to North Koreans

Letter 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.”

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