'As two major new reports highlight North Korean human rights violations, Release International is campaigning for religious freedom in the country often described as the worst persecutor of Christians on Earth.
The Release One Day campaign is calling on Christians to sign a petition pressing for freedom of worship in the land where Bibles are banned. The petition asks North Korea to allow its citizens to practise their faith without threat of persecution.
In a new report the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea says the country may have abducted 180,000 people to force them to work for the regime against their will.
And Amnesty International recently published satellite images of North Korea’s mushrooming political prison camps, documenting torture, starvation and mass execution.
Speaking to Release, one North Korean defector described Yodok prison camp as ‘hell on earth’.
‘North Korea has got to be one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian,’ says Release CEO Andy Dipper. ‘Bibles are banned and the regime can jail Christians as political prisoners. Those trying to escape can be shot on s
ight. Those who make it across the border risk being used as slaves.'
(Release International.)
