North Korea: Tightened controls on communications with the outside world leave families devastated

9 March 2016
Ordinary North Koreans caught using mobile phones to contact loved ones who have fled abroad, risk being sent to political prison camps or other detention facilities as the government tightens its stranglehold on people’s use of communication technology, reveals Amnesty International in a new report published today.

Nothing can ever justify people being thrown in detention for trying to fulfil a basic human need – to connect with their family and friends.

North Korea Tightened controls on communications with the outside world leave families devastated.odt by Thavam Ratna