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Free Expression & the Law
Freedom of Assembly
North Korea remains one of the world's most repressive states despite recent diplomatic openings with South Korea, the United States, and other countries. Human Rights Watch is urging the world to demand improvements instead of ignoring the dire human rights situation facing 25 million people.
North Korea Highlights
North Korea
Choi says that prejudice is the biggest concern facing North Korean defectors in the South, and works to challenge this through his popular online cartoon strip, Rodong Shimmun: The Enthusiastic Resettlement Diaries of a Male North Korean Defector.
Free Expression & the Law
North Korea's central court has passed a death sentence in absentia on four South Korean journalists for writing positive reviews of an "insulting" book about North Korea's growing market economy.
North Korea
Free Expression & the Law
Authorities are cracking down on people fleeing the country, and on those who share information with the outside world.
Human Rights Watch
Access to Information
North Korea
Free Expression & the Law
7 January 2015
Human Rights Watch
Attacks
North Korea
Free Expression & the Law
19 November 2014
Index on Censorship
Censorship
North Korea
16 May 2014
Index on Censorship
Access to Information
Attacks
South Korea
North Korea
3 April 2014
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
North Korea
17 March 2014
Human Rights Watch
Access to Information
Free Expression & the Law
North Korea
18 February 2014
Index on Censorship
Access to Information
Censorship
North Korea
17 December 2013
Human Rights Watch
Access to Information
Free Expression & the Law
North Korea
19 September 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
Censorship
North Korea
18 May 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
International Press Institute
Awards
North Korea
11 November 2009
Reporters Without Borders
United States
North Korea
12 August 2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
United States
North Korea
10 June 2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
International Federation of Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
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