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A NORTH Korean court sentenced Canadian clergyman Lim Hyeon Soo to life in prison with hard labour yesterday after he was convicted of crimes against the state.
Mr Lim, who leads the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, had been in detention since February.
He had been charged with offences including harming the dignity of the supreme leadership, trying to use religion to destroy the North Korean system, disseminating negative propaganda about the North to overseas Koreans, helping the US and the South Korean authorities to lure and abduct North Korean citizens and aiding their programmes to assist defectors from the North.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
