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Hyeon Soo Lim: Canadian pastor given life sentence in North Korea
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Hyeon Soo Lim: Canadian pastor given life sentence in North Korea
Staff and agencies in Pyongyang
Wednesday 16 December 2015 04.23 GMT
A North Korean court has sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labour for what it called crimes against the state.
Hyeon Soo Lim, from the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, was given the sentence after a brief trial before the North’s supreme court on Wednesday. He had been in detention since February.
Relatives of Lim have said he travelled to North Korea on 31 January as part of a regular humanitarian mission where he supports a nursing home, a nursery and an orphanage.
They said Lim, who is in his early 60s, has made more than 100 trips to North Korea since 1997, and that his trips were about helping people, not political.
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Staff and agencies in Pyongyang
Wednesday 16 December 2015 04.23 GMT
A North Korean court has sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labour for what it called crimes against the state.
Hyeon Soo Lim, from the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, was given the sentence after a brief trial before the North’s supreme court on Wednesday. He had been in detention since February.
Relatives of Lim have said he travelled to North Korea on 31 January as part of a regular humanitarian mission where he supports a nursing home, a nursery and an orphanage.
They said Lim, who is in his early 60s, has made more than 100 trips to North Korea since 1997, and that his trips were about helping people, not political.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/hyeon-soo-lim-canadian-pastor-given-life-sentence-in-north-korea
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