The Hidden Gulag - US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

The Hidden Gulag Second Edition20. Cease persecuting, prosecuting, and punishingNorth Koreans repatriated by police authoritiesof neighboring countries. North Koreansshould not be punished by their government forexercising their right to leave the DPRK.21. Observe the provisions of the DPRKCriminal Code and Criminal Procedures Codeon arrests, trials, and treatment of detainedpersons—particularly prohibiting the use oftorture or confessions obtained by the policeunder torture or forced starvation in order tojustify the detention and imprisonment of NorthKoreans who crossed the DPRK-China border.The disregard by both North Korean policeagencies of the DPRK’s own Criminal Code andCriminal Procedures Code should be ended.22. Ratify the Convention on the Eliminationof All Forms of Racial Discrimination, andimmediately cease performing involuntaryabortions on pregnant repatriated women whoare suspected of having ethnic Chinese spouses,and immediately end the practice of suffocatingnew-born infants or fetuses suspected of ethnicChinese fathers.24. Implement the key recommendations madeby other UN Member States during the UniversalPeriodic Review at the UN Human RightsCouncil in 2009. Report to the Council on themeasures taken to implement the recommendationsthat the DPRK has acted upon.25. Ratify the Convention against Torture andother forms of Cruel, Inhuman and DegradingTreatment and Punishment, and implementthose standards, and all standards againsttorture and related practices in the InternationalCovenants and DPRK domestic legislation in allplaces of detention within the DPRK.26. Initiate a dialogue with the UN HighCommissioner for Human Rights, and therelevant thematic UN rapporteurs and workinggroups, including the Special Rapporteur on thesituation of human rights in the DPRK. Renewa human rights dialogue with the member statesof the European Union that have diplomaticrepresentation in Pyongyang. Invite the U.S.Special Envoy for North Korean Human RightsIssues to Pyongyang for regular discussions ofhumanitarian and human rights issues.Regarding International Standards andProcedures23. Implement the recommendations made tothe DPRK by the UN Human Rights Committee,the UN Committee on Economic, Socialand Cultural Rights, the Committee on theRights of the Child and the Committee on theElimination of Discrimination Against Women.II. Recommendations To thePeople’s Republic of China1. In accordance with recommendations madeto China by the UN Committee on the Eliminationof Discrimination against Women andthe UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,review the situation of North Korean womenand asylum seekers to ensure that they do notbecome victims of trafficking and marriageenslavement because of their status as illegal172