India, Oct. 22 -- Three years on from the reported resumption of large-scale forcible returns of North Korean nationals from China, serious concerns persist about their fate, according to a group of Human Rights Council-appointed independent experts.
There is no information on the whereabouts and treatment of those repatriated - or those who remain at risk of return - the experts said in a press release Wednesday.
"These events form part of a longstanding pattern of serious human rights violations against individuals forcibly returned to the DPRK. In the absence of independent monitoring in either country, many returnees remain unaccounted for," they said.
"For as long as their fate and whereabouts remain unknown, returnees are deprived ...