Chongjin concentration camp

The internment Chongjin (also Chongjin ) is a labor camp in North Korea for political prisoners. The official name is Kwan -li - so ( penal colony ) No. 25

Location

The camp is located in the city of Chongjin, Province Hamgyŏng - pukto in North Korea. It is located in a locked area of the district Suseong ( Susong -dong ) on the northern outskirts of Chongjin, about 500 meters west of the river Suseong between two small hills.

Description

The prisoners in the camp Ch'ŏngjin will live long imprisoned without hope of release. Like the other internment camp for political prisoners is also subject to the camp Ch'ŏngjin the State Security Ministry. But while the other camps include many penal colonies in many remote mountain valleys, the camp in Chongjin consists only of a large prison complex, similar to the re-education camps. The camp is about 500 meters long and 500 meters wide, surrounded by high walls with some watchtowers. The number of prisoners is estimated to be at least 3000.

Function

The camp serves to exclude political prisoners from society. The prisoners are also exploited with hard work, they have to make in the stock own factories. Known North Korean consumer goods, such as bicycles branded Kalmaegi, are made ​​by hand.

Human rights situation

Up to now still no prisoners of the camp Chongjin is managed to flee abroad, so there is no eyewitness reports on the human rights situation. Ahn Myung- chul (former security guard at the detention Haengyong ) describes the camp as a prison for high-ranking political prisoners, so one can start from very harsh conditions.

Prisoners ( eyewitnesses )

  • There are no eyewitness accounts of the camp because still no prisoners inmates escape from North Korea has succeeded. There are some reports of North Korean refugees in the camp of prisoners of Chongjin.
  • Kim Kook -jae, 1987 on board the fishing boat Dong Jin 27 abducted to North Korea ( one of the thousands of kidnapped South Koreans ), died, according to a human rights organization in the camp Chongjin.
  • Many pastors, returnees from Japan and exiles from Pyongyang with their families are held according to the 9th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees in the camp Chongjin.
  • According to Amnesty International 2005 Jin Gyeong -suk died at the labor camp by torture.
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