Kwon Hyang-Sil M0000052
North Korean victims- Name (KOR)
- 권향실
- Name (JPN)
- クォン・ヒャンシル
- Type of victim
- Disappeared after repatriation
- Nationality
- North Korea
- Sex
- Female
- Age when taken
- 33
- Age group when taken
- 30s
- Below 18 when taken
- No
- Marital status
- Married
- Type of occupation
- Unknown
- Date of birth
- Dec 7, 1971
- Year of birth
- 1970s: 1971
- Country of birth
- North Korea
- Place of residence
- China
- Place of residence on map
Latitude: 33.8624223
Longitude: 82.7393394
- Place of residence on map
- Reason behind disappearance
- Escape from North Korea
- Date when taken
- Mar 31, 2004
- Year when taken
- 2000s: 2004
- Country where taken
- China
- Province where taken
- Liaoning
- Region where taken
- Shenyang
- Region where taken on map
Latitude: 41.0836549
Longitude: 120.0754985
- Region where taken on map
- Place where taken
- Hotel
- Type of place where taken
- Hotel/Hostel
- Description of disappearance
- Seven other nationals from North Korea were arrested with her.
- Country last identified
- North Korea
- Information on detention
- Yes
- Place of first detention
- Security Council, Hoeryong
- Period of first detention
- 3 months (May-August 2004)
- Additional information on first detention
- Her family was allowed to deliver food to her through the security agent there. However, she was never allowed to receive any visit by her family
- Place of second detention
- Province-level MSS in Cheongjin-si, North Hamgyong, North Korea
- Period of second detention
- August 2004–
- Additional information on second detention
- Ms. Kwon’s family was informed by a security agent from the Hoeryong City Security Council that she had been transferred to the North Hamgyong Provincial Security Agency in Chongjin. Since then, Ms. Kwon’s family has received no information from the relevant authorities in North Korea concerning her whereabouts.
- Place of third detention
- No. 15 kwanliso in Yodeok, South Hamgyong, North Korea
- Period of third detention
- 2005-
- Additional information on third detention
- On the basis of the information collected by the source, it is believed that, in 2005, Ms. Kwon was transferred to Yodok Kwanliso.
- Combined geolocations
Latitude: 42.4365663
Longitude: 129.7225066
- Region of first detention on mapRegion of second detention on mapRegion of third detention on map
- Additional description
Ms. Kwon has been detained since 2004 without trial. Her family has never been informed of the reasons for her continued incommunicado detention.
- Related perpetrator(s)
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2 relationships, 2 entities