Monthly Archive: July, 2001

Freedom House Press Release

FREEDOM HOUSE CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON NORTH KOREA HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS WASHINGTON, DC, July 8, 2005 — North Korea’s horrific human rights crisis will be the focus of a first-ever international conference, to be held July 19, 2005 in Washington, DC, Freedom House announced today. The conference, titled “Freedom for All Koreans,” will feature Kang Chol Hwan, a defector to South Korea and author of “The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag,” and Natan Sharansky, former...

Freedom House Press Release

FREEDOM HOUSE CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON NORTH KOREA HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS WASHINGTON, DC, July 8, 2005 — North Korea’s horrific human rights crisis will be the focus of a first-ever international conference, to be held July 19, 2005 in Washington, DC, Freedom House announced today. The conference, titled “Freedom for All Koreans,” will feature Kang Chol Hwan, a defector to South Korea and author of “The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag,” and Natan Sharansky, former...