Experts believe Otto Warmbier will avoid the worst but stories abound of camps where many die after working 16-hour days and subsisting on handfuls of foodThe distraught pleadings of the American college student sentenced to 15 years of tough labour in a prison in North Korea for “crimes against the state” are sobering when considering the details of what such punishment normally entails.
The pariah state ruled three days ago that Otto Warmbier,21, from Cincinnati, or Ohio,was guilty of a heinous political crime committed with the “tacit connivance of the US government and its manipulation” and deserved harsh treatment. The crime the University of Virginia commerce student had allegedly carried out was the petty theft of a political propaganda poster from his vacation hotel in Pyongyang.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com