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NY Times News Alert - June 8, 2009
North Korea Sentences US Women Journalists to 12 Years in
Labor Prison
North Korea found two American journalists guilty of illegal
entry and sentenced them to 12 years in a labor prison, its
official KCNA news agency said on Monday.
The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who worked for
Current TV, were arrested in March while working on a story
near the border between North Korea and China.
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Reporters Without Borders
“Laura
Ling and Euna Lee were taken into custody on the Chinese-North Korean border
while reporting on the fate of North Korean refugees, and, more specifically,
on the practice of trafficking in women.
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International Women's Media
Foundation and Reporters Without Borders organized
a Petition for Release of the
two American women journalists.
The combined Petition signatures
were delivered to the North Korea Mission to the United Nations on June 3.
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