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Conditions inside prisons in North Korea are harsh and life-threatening.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Amnesty International, May 3, 2011 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Human Rights Watch )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, January 14, 2013 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=U.S. Department of State )〕 Prisoners are subject to torture and inhumane treatment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Amnesty International )〕 Public and secret executions of prisoners, even children, especially in cases of attempted escape are commonplace.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Korea Institute for National Unification )〕 Infanticides (and infant killings upon birth)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea )〕 also often occur. The mortality rate is very high, because many prisoners die of starvation, illnesses, work accidents, or torture.〔https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/11/116_145812.html〕 The DPRK government denies all allegations of human rights violations in prison camps, claiming that this is prohibited by criminal procedure law,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=United Nations Human Rights Council )〕 but former prisoners testify that there are completely different rules in the prison camps.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) and Korean Bar Association (KBA) )〕 The DPRK government failed to provide any information on prisoners or prison camps or to allow access to any human rights organization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=United Nations/Derechos Human Rights )〕 Lee Soon-ok gave detailed testimony on her treatment in the North Korean prison system to the United States House of Representatives in 2002. In her statement she said, "I testify that most of the 6,000 prisoners who were there when I arrived in 1987 had quietly perished under the harsh prison conditions by the time I was released in 1992."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=United States Senate Hearings )〕 Many other former prisoners, including Kang Chol-hwan and Shin Dong-hyuk, gave detailed and consistent testimonies on the human rights crimes in North Korean prison camps. According to the testimony of former camp guard Ahn Myong Chol of Camp 22, the guards are trained to treat the detainees as sub-human, and he gave an account of children in one of the camps who were fighting over who got to eat a kernel of corn retrieved from cow dung.〔National Geographic: Inside North Korea, aired on the History Channel in 2006, accessed on Netflix July 22, 2011〕 The North Korean prison camp facilities can be distinguished into large internment camps for political prisoners (Kwan-li-so in Korean) and reeducation prison camps (Kyo-hwa-so in Korean).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea )〕 ==Internment camps for political prisoners== The internment camps for people accused of political offences or denounced as politically unreliable are run by the State Security Department. Political prisoners are subject to guilt by association punishment. They are deported with parents, children and siblings, and sometimes even grandparents or grandchildren, without any lawsuit or conviction, and are detained for the rest of their lives. The internment camps are located in central and northeastern North Korea. They comprise many prison labour colonies in secluded mountain valleys, completely isolated from the outside world. The total number of prisoners is estimated to be 150,000 to 200,000. Yodok camp and Bukchang camp are separated into two sections: One section for political prisoners in lifelong detention, another part similar to re-education camps with prisoners sentenced to long-term imprisonment with the vague hope of eventual release. The prisoners are forced to perform hard and dangerous slave work with primitive means in mining and agriculture. The food rations are very small, so that the prisoners are constantly on the brink of starvation. In combination with the hard work this leads to huge numbers of prisoners dying. An estimated 40% of prisoners die from malnutrition. Moreover, many prisoners are crippled from work accidents, frostbite or torture. There is a rigid punishment in the camp. Prisoners that work too slowly or do not obey an order are beaten or tortured.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea )〕 In cases of stealing food or attempting to escape, the prisoners are publicly executed. Initially there were around twelve political prison camps, but some were merged or closed (e. g. Onsong prison camp, Kwan-li-so No. 12, following a suppressed riot with around 5000 dead people in 1987〔("5000 Prisoners Massacred at Onsong Concentration Camp in 1987", Chosun Ilbo, December 11, 2002 )〕). Today there are six political prison camps in North Korea, with the size determined from satellite images and the number of prisoners estimated by former prisoners.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea )〕 Most of the camps are documented in testimonies of former prisoners and, for all of them, coordinates and satellite images are available. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prisons in North Korea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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