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Wednesday 16 December 2015

Canadian pastor gets life imprisonment in North Korea

Canadian pastor gets life imprisonment in North Korea

Hyeon Soo Lim,

North Korea’s highest court has sentenced a Canadian Christian pastor to a life sentence with hard labour for “crimes against the state.”

Hyeon Soo Lim, 60, was arrested in the capital Pyongyang after he travelled there in January for humanitarian work, the BBC reports.

The Toronto-based pastor, who is of South Korean origin, was shown at a news conference earlier confessing to a plot to overthrow the government and set up a “religious state.”

The authorities periodically detain foreigners for religious or missionary activity and similar cases have seen staged public confessions from prisoners.

Mr. Lim was sentenced after a 90-minute trial at the North Korean Supreme Court.

He was convicted of joining the United States and South Korea in an anti-North Korea human rights “racket” and fabricating and circulating false propaganda materials tarnishing the country’s image.

He was also accused of funding and helping “defectors” to escape, in some cases through Mongolia.

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