A new report accompanies the database. It finds the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, with the Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un at the helm, is responsible for gross violations of international human rights law resulting from its failure to meet its legal obligations to detainees in the penal system.
What we present in our report is plain evidence of incidence — specifically, patterns of human rights violations that have been perpetrated by state agents in state-run penal facilities against detainees. We include four individual cases that shine a light on the devastating human impact of arbitrary mass detention. To expose the insidious and often hidden violence inflicted upon detainees — from deficient food rationing to brutal beatings and sexual assault — we also include materials that spotlight systematic brutality. Each of these elements serves the same purpose: to ensure that justice can be served.
We also release a digital model of Onsong County MPS Detention Centre. We recreated the facility using digital modelling, survivor testimony, memory-based diagrams, and satellite imagery. This is the first time anyone has seen inside a North Korean penal facility. We were supported by Orion Intel.
