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N. Korean concentration camp escapee wins international human rights award

By Korea Herald

Published : May 21, 2013 - 19:48

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Shin Dong-hyuk Shin Dong-hyuk
A North Korean concentration camp escapee will receive an international human rights award for raising global awareness of atrocities taking place in the communist country, a news report said Tuesday.

The Voice of America said the Switzerland-based non-governmental agency UN Watch decided to give the 2013 Moral Courage Award to Shin Dong-hyuk, who has been made famous by his biography “Escape from Camp 14.”

The award ceremony will be held in Geneva’s League of Nations Hall on June 5 with the defector scheduled to give a speech to U.N. officials, diplomats and civic group representatives. The date marks the 20th anniversary of the human rights group’s creation.

Shin is the only known person to have escaped from North Korea’s concentration camps. He made his escape in 2005 when he was 24, and made his way to China and then to South Korea. (Yonhap News)

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