DPR KOREA: UN HUMAN RIGHTS PROBE SET TO BEGIN HEARINGS NEXT WEEK

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Date: 16 Aug 2013 11:00:01 -0400
Subject: DPR KOREA: UN HUMAN RIGHTS PROBE SET TO BEGIN HEARINGS NEXT WEEK
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DPR KOREA: UN HUMAN RIGHTS PROBE SET TO BEGIN HEARINGS NEXT WEEKNew
York, Aug 16 2013 11:00AMThe United Nations panel set up to
investigate human rights violations in the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK) will begin a series of public hearings next
week in Seoul, Republic of Korea, aimed at gathering information from
various witnesses.

Michael Kirby, the chairman of the three-member Commission of Inquiry,
said the panel decided to take public testimony to help raise
international awareness of conditions in DPRK and because of a lack of
response by Pyongyang to the requests of the UN team to be allowed
entry into the country.

"We are approaching this inquiry with impartiality and with no
preconceptions," he stated in a
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13634&LangID=E">news
release. "We have asked to visit the DPRK and we have also taken steps
to reach out to the Government to seek their participation in the
hearings, so far to no avail."

Established by the UN Human Rights Council in March for a period of
one year, the commission is tasked with investigating the "systematic,
widespread and grave violations of human rights" in DPRK in order to
ensure full accountability, in particular for violations which may
amount to crimes against humanity.

In addition to Mr. Kirby, a retired judge from Australia, the
commission comprises Sonja Biserko, founder and president of the
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, and Marzuki Darusman,
former Attorney General of Indonesia and the current UN Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in DPRK.

The hearings will be held from 20 to 24 August on the campus of Yonsei
University and are expected to involve some 30 witnesses. Members of
the commission will also hold meetings with senior Government
officials, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and research
institutions. A similar round of hearings is also scheduled for Tokyo
later in the month.

"We are determined to shed light on the different aspects of various
alleged human rights violations," Mr. Kirby said. "To the extent that
we establish that such violations have occurred, we will also seek to
determine whether crimes against humanity have occurred and who bears
responsibility among different state institutions and officials. But
it is not possible at this moment to envisage the level of detail that
the commission will be able to achieve in establishing lines of
responsibility, if any."

Possible violations to be investigated by the commission include those
pertaining to the right to food, prison camps, torture and inhuman
treatment, arbitrary detention, discrimination, freedom of expression,
freedom of movement and enforced disappearances.

The commission is scheduled to present an update to the Geneva-based
Council on its findings in September, and to the General Assembly in
New York in October. A final written report will be submitted to the
Council in March 2014.

Mr. Kirby noted that at this stage, it is not possible to say what
follow-up process will unfold. "It will mostly depend on the findings
of our investigation, the conclusions and the recommendations that
will be reached and the decision of the competent organs of the UN and
other international institutions in implementing – or not – our
recommendations," he said.

Next week's hearings will be accessible to the public through media
reports and regular updates on the commission's
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/CommissionInquiryonHRinDPRK.aspx">website,
where video will be posted following the public testimonies.Aug 16
2013 11:00AM
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