PYONGYANG: You should sit on knees or on an imaginary chair. After an hour, you will be allowed to straighten your legs for barely one minute. Prison guards will take turns to prevent you from sleeping. Occasional physical examinations on people, including women, while they are fully naked. Male guards will even examine the inside of female genitals and anus. You should never ever show any sign of protest. Otherwise, you may lose your lives. You will be beaten with objects such as heavy keys. All your body parts from fingers to toes will be thrashed, till your skin turns blue. Rest will continue in the next week... These are the atrocities one may witness in North Korean jails, rightly called the hell on earth. Communist dictator Kim Jong Un’s dissidents and those caught trying to flee the country, are the ones subjected to brutal tortures in these prisons. Never kill them at once, but make them suffer for months; this is the method adopted here.
The serious offenders are kept in the Onsong detention centre near to the Chinese borders. If trapped here, one may not come out alive. After severe tortures, you will be given water enough to fill your cheeks. Few grains to eat, can’t talk to anyone, not even to the prison guards. One of Kim’s favourite pastimes is to work long hours at high-risk labour camps and other prisons, without any rest. Many often fall dead in these camps; not even their dead bodies are taken out.
Most of the prisoners in these jails suffer from chronic diseases. However, they are not provided enough treatment. Lung diseases are quite common and spread quickly. Doctors will be brought to jails only when there is a risk of the jail staff getting infected. It is also common for female prisoners to be subjected to abortions. Even women, who are eight months pregnant, are subjected to unnatural abortion methods. If any of the infants come out alive during the procedure, then they will be killed mercilessly.
Even though several international organizations, including the United Nations (UN), have passed resolutions against the human rights violations happening in North Koreans jails, the atrocities are still continuing without any halt. However, the country’s dictator Kim Jong Un claims that no such cruelties happen in his country while dismissing all such reports as mere rumours.