North Korean prisoners killed for escape attempts: UN report

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North Korean prisoners killed for escape attempts: UN report

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a new report on North Korea's grim human rights record that prisoners who have tried to escape or steal have allegedly been publicly executed, while other detainees have been subject to sexual violence and severely beaten with clubs and metal rods.

The report to the General Assembly, obtained Friday by The Associated Press, said guards make detainees undress and repeatedly subject them to body searches for money and concealed items.

They are interrogated, sometimes for up to a month or longer, and their cells are so overcrowded they can't lie down, it said

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