{"id":53462,"date":"2022-12-19T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53462"},"modified":"2022-12-19T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:24:20","slug":"pyongyang-student-dies-police-detention-after-arrest-distributing-foreign-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/pyongyang-student-dies-police-detention-after-arrest-distributing-foreign-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang student dies in police detention after arrest for distributing foreign videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of several students arrested in Pyongyang on charges of distributing foreign video content died during police detention last month, Daily NK has learned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in Pyongyang on Thursday, four high school students in Taesong District, Pyongyang,were arrested by Unified Command 82 (below: UC 82) in November on charges of watching, possessing and distributing \u201cimpure videos\u201d in violation of the law to eradicate reactionary thought and culture, as well as for covering up, abetting and failing to report those violations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said on Mother\u2019s Day (Nov. 16), students at the high school gathered at the home of one of the students where they drank, listened to South Korean music and danced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnother student who wasn\u2019t invited to the gathering reported it out of spite,\u201d he said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBased on the report, the UC 82 raided the home, and in the course of their search they discovered a memory card with foreign music, movies and videos.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UC 82 conducted back-to-back investigations to discover the source of the videos, and arrested four students they singled out as the initial distributors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea enacted its law to eradicate reactionary thought and culture \u2014 which includes punishments for importing and distributing foreign videos \u2014 in December of 2020 and called for its strict enforcement during the National Conference of Judicial Officers in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Believing the importation and distribution of foreign videos endanger the regime, the authorities are heavily enforcing the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>DEATH OF ARRESTED STUDENT LEADS TO UPROAR AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the source&#8217;s account, an uproar ensued after one of the arrested students died in the lockup from cruel treatment and beatings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne of the students in the lock-up asked the guard to let him go to the bathroom because he really needed to defecate, but the guard ignored him, so he was forced to go in his pants,\u201d said the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOutraged by this, the guard punished him by telling him to stand on his head. But when the student kept falling, he beat him, and during the beating, the student hit his head hard on the floor and lost consciousness,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the guard did not take the unconscious student to the hospital, leaving him lying there in the lock-up for a while. A while later, he was belatedly brought to the hospital, but he ultimately died, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After receiving the body and learning of how the student died, the bereaved family submitted a complaint to the Workers&#8217; Party Central Committee and asked for help from a relative who is a high-ranking cadre in the Ministry of State Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe dead student\u2019s uncle is a Ministry of State Security cadre,\u201d said the source. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe mediated, calling on the family to quietly settle matters if they could and persuading them to withdraw the complaint, and demanding through the unified command that the lockup guard be discharged and the family compensated for their loss.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the resolution was aimed at preventing the issue from getting any bigger given that the student was facing charges of illegally distributing impure videos, something strictly prohibited by the regime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>REMAINING STUDENTS AWAITING TRIAL\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the source said it will likely take five or six months of investigations until the other arrested students face trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe court will decide their punishment based on whether they were the initial distributors, how many times they watched the videos, how many times they distributed them, their history of ideological statements, and other factors,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/exclusive-daily-nk-obtains-materials-explaining-specifics-new-anti-reactionary-thought-law\/\">explanatory materials<\/a> on the law to eradicate reactionary thought and culture obtained by Daily NK, the punishment for importing and distributing South Korean movies, recordings, videos or publications is life in a forced labor camp or death, depending on the circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20221215-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of several students arrested in Pyongyang on charges of distributing foreign video content died during police detention last month, Daily NK has learned. 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