THE UNITED STATES CONCERNED IN GOVERNMENT MOVE BY UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE ‘EXTREMELY CONCERNED’ THAT YOUNG DPR KOREA DEFECTORS LIKELY SENT HOME

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UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE 'EXTREMELY CONCERNED' THAT YOUNG DPR KOREA
DEFECTORS LIKELY SENT HOMENew York, May 31 2013 1:00PMOne day after
an independent United Nations human rights expert said he was
extremely concerned for the protection of nine defectors from the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the group has apparently
been returned to the country.

"We have received credible information that the nine young North
Korean defectors were subsequently returned to DPRK via China," the
spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR), Rupert Colville,
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13390&LangID=E">told
journalists in Geneva.

Mr. Colville added that OHCHR was "extremely concerned" about the
protection of the group members "who are at risk of severe punishment
and ill-treatment upon their return."

The UN human rights office was dismayed that the Governments of Laos
and China appear to have abrogated their non-refoulement obligations,
especially given the vulnerability of the group, Mr. Colville said.

According to the principle of non-refoulement, no State party to the
Convention "shall expel or return ('refouler') a refugee in any manner
whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom
would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality,
membership of a particular social group or political opinion."

"We urge the Chinese and Laotian authorities to publicly clarify the
fate of the nine young North Koreans, as well as the conditions under
which they were returned and request the Government of DPRK to provide
immediate access to the group by independent actors to verify their
status and treatment," Mr. Colville told the press.

All nine defectors are reportedly orphans. Up to five of them could be
minors. The group had reportedly been arrested by the Laotian police
while crossing the Laos-China border and sent back to China on 27 May.

In a statement yesterday, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in DPRK, Marzuki Darusman, said that "no one should be
refouled to the DPRK" where members of the group may face torture and
the death penalty.

In successive resolutions on DPRK, the UN General Assembly has
expressed serious concern about the situation of refugees and
asylum-seekers expelled or returned to DPRK and the sanctions imposed
on those repatriated from abroad.May 31 2013 1:00PM
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