North Korean prisoners publicly executed for trying to escape or steal, UN says

UN interviewed more than 330 people, mostly women, who left the country, with some subject to sexual violence and beatings North Korean prisoners who tried to escape or steal have reportedly been publicly executed, and detainees have been subject to sexual violence and severely beaten with clubs and metal rods, according to a United Nations report. Guards make detainees undress and repeatedly subject them to body searches for money and concealed items, the report by secretary-general António Gu...