“This constitutes the criminal offence of abduction.” Nigeria
Jun Sasamoto , secretary-general of the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific, speaks as the confederation vice president Niloufer Bhagwat listens during a briefing on a fact-finding mission after investigations on the twelve North Korean waitresses “defection” case, who fled to South Korea in 2016, at a hotel in Pyongyang on September 4, 2019.
During their six-day stay in the North Korean capital, which ends Thursday, the lawyers said they spoke to seven former waitresses who claimed they managed to escape while their colleagues were tricked into coming to Seoul. The 12 women were “taken away by deception … against their will, separated from their families and country”, it said after taking evidence from their seven colleagues.At a briefing in Pyongyang on Wednesday, one of the lawyers slammed the Seoul government for its handling of the case.
“ did not want to reveal that some of the young women had approached them for help for assistance. The reason they did not want to reveal is because … they are not concerned with the violations of human rights by the government of South Korea.”
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