It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in our upcoming fundraising event, A Hearing on Religious Freedom in North Korea, to be held at 18:30 on March 14, 2016 at Four Millbank, Westminster, London, SW1P 3JA.

• Programme

• Guest Speakers

Ji Hyeon-a

Ms. Ji is from Chongjin City, North Korea. Like many North Korean refugees who get repatriated from China, Hyeon-a survived 8 months in one of North Korea’s notorious labour re-education camps. Thankfully, Hyeon-a was able to conceal her Christian beliefs when repatriated, as revealing them would surely have led to execution or incarceration for life. Today, Hyeon A is a student and human rights activist.

Jang Jin-sung

Jang Jin-sung is a former intelligence officer and poet laureate under North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. A graduate of Pyongyang Arts School and Kim Il Sung University, he worked in the United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party, which is responsible for inter-Korean warfare, policy and diplomacy. After escaping in 2004, he worked at the Institute for National Security Strategy in Seoul, released a book of bestselling poetry and a bestselling memoir, and founded the independent platform for North Korea reports, New Focus.

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A 2014 report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea laid bare the North Korean Government’s appalling abuses of religious freedom. Once a hotbed of spiritual belief, North Korea’s believers today face the most extreme forms of persecution — torture, enforced disappearences, life-long prison sentences, and executions come to those who practise the indigenous Cheondogyo faith, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity. For Christians, the largest religious group in North Korea, Open Doors describes the country as “the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian”.

Evidence of the extraordinarily violent and ongoing repression of religious freedom in North Korea, which is pursuant to state policy, is an issue that demands urgent attention. International scrutiny on the freedom of religious belief is permanently critical, but no more so than in the case of the DPRK.

For the stated reasons, we would very much value your participation at the hearing. Following the hearing, there will be a fundraising reception to support the work of EAHRNK.

The hearing will take place on March 14, 2016. We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in our upcoming fundraising event, A Hearing on Religious Freedom in North Korea, to be held at 18:30 on March 14, 2016 at Four Millbank, Westminster, London, SW1P 3JA.

• Programme

• Guest Speakers

Ji Hyeon-a

Ms. Ji is from Chongjin City, North Korea. Like many North Korean refugees who get repatriated from China, Hyeon-a survived 8 months in one of North Korea’s notorious labour re-education camps. Thankfully, Hyeon-a was able to conceal her Christian beliefs when repatriated, as revealing them would surely have led to execution or incarceration for life. Today, Hyeon A is a student and human rights activist.

Jang Jin-sung

Jang Jin-sung is a former intelligence officer and poet laureate under North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. A graduate of Pyongyang Arts School and Kim Il Sung University, he worked in the United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party, which is responsible for inter-Korean warfare, policy and diplomacy. After escaping in 2004, he worked at the Institute for National Security Strategy in Seoul, released a book of bestselling poetry and a bestselling memoir, and founded the independent platform for North Korea reports, New Focus.

• Information

A 2014 report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea laid bare the North Korean Government’s appalling abuses of religious freedom. Once a hotbed of spiritual belief, North Korea’s believers today face the most extreme forms of persecution — torture, enforced disappearences, life-long prison sentences, and executions come to those who practise the indigenous Cheondogyo faith, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity. For Christians, the largest religious group in North Korea, Open Doors describes the country as “the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian”.

Evidence of the extraordinarily violent and ongoing repression of religious freedom in North Korea, which is pursuant to state policy, is an issue that demands urgent attention. International scrutiny on the freedom of religious belief is permanently critical, but no more so than in the case of the DPRK.

For the stated reasons, we would very much value your participation at the hearing. Following the hearing, there will be a fundraising reception to support the work of EAHRNK.

The hearing will take place on March 14, 2016. We very much hope that you will be able to join us.