TOKYO, Jan. 30 Kyodo Activists wo...

TOKYO, Jan. 30 Kyodo

Activists working to help North Korean refugee onward Thursday demonstrated in impudence of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo and called for the release of more than a dozen race who fled North Korea from detention in China.

side sheltered from the wind Young Hwa, a leader of nongovernmental organization release the North Korean People! imperative Action Network (RENK), urged an [i]finale[/i] to the forcible repatriation of detained asylum seekers

According to leeward the refugees have no other choice moreover to seek asylum in a home other than China given Beijing's crackdown in succession people fleeing the North.

RENK says it has confirmed China's arrests of 58 North Korean refugee as well as a South Korean refugee supporters. Ten of them have already been forcibly repatriated to the North, the clump said.

Thursday's declare was aimed at the detainment earlier this month of several population who fled North Korea to China. They were planning to sneak without of China's Shandong Province through boat and go to Japan or southern Korea.

Beijing, which views North Koreans fleeing to China as economic migrants and not refugee has in the past sent back asylum inquirers to the North, where they are feared to face persecution.

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