Hoeryong concentration camp

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Camp 22 is a North Korean prison for political prisoners. It is located in north-east North Korea, on the border of Russia and China 20 km from the city of Hoeryong.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Alleged abuse 2 See also 3 References

[edit] Overview

There are an estimated 50,000 prisoners held in Camp 22. Most have been imprisoned because relatives were critical of the Korean Workers' Party or its General Secretary Kim Jong-il.

[edit] Alleged abuse

There have been numerous reports of human rights abuses at Camp 22. There have even been accounts of chemical experimentation on prisoners using a glass gas chamber for observation. Some accounts have even been attributed to a former chief of management at Camp 22, Kwon Hyuk.

[edit] See also

• Alleged North Korean human experimentation
• Human rights in North Korea

[edit] References

• Antony Barnett The Observer Sunday February 1, 2004
• "Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag" - Guardian Unlimited (UK)
• Satellite Photos of Camp 22 - Human Rights Without Frontiers
• Accounts of Labor Camps - Human Rights Watch