North Korea detainees subjected to ritual torture and sexual assault – rights group

Prisoners considered less than an animal' by regime, according to interviews with 15 former detainees by Human Rights Watch

Suspects in North Korea are subjected to ritual torture, humiliation and sexual assault by a criminal justice system that considers them less than an animal", according to the first-ever report detailing the brutality of the country's pretrial detention conditions.

The US-based Human Rights Watch [HRW] said people who are arrested and sent to pretrial detention are placed in cramped, unhygienic cells, forced to confess and denied proper food and clothing.