In North Korea, a two-year-old child was sentenced to life imprisonment in a North Korean POW camp. This was written on May 26 The Mirrorciting a US State Department report on religious freedom abroad.
According to the report, a two-year-old child will spend his entire life in the camp after a Bible was found at his Christian parents’ home.
It is noted that in North Korea, Christians are brutally persecuted, they are tortured, imprisoned and killed. Several cases of North Koreans being killed for being Christians were also included in the report. In particular, in 2011, a woman and her grandson were shot in North Korea because of their religious beliefs.
Some citizens were tortured with sleep deprivation, including one woman in solitary confinement who was driven to suicide in 2020 after prison guards refused to let her sleep.
Other believers have described so-called “pigeon torture” where they were hung up with their hands tied behind their backs and unable to sit or stand for days on end.
Several North Korean Christians have been hiding their faith from their children, the report says, as children are encouraged in the country to tell their teachers about any sign of faith in their parents’ home.
According to the report, 70,000 Christians in North Korea were imprisoned for their faith under Kim Jong-un’s regime, out of a possible population of 400,000.
2023-05-27 21:03:55
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