Activist for N. Koreans Indicted in China
From Times Wire Reports
A Japanese activist arrested in China four months ago for allegedly helping North Korean defectors has been indicted on people-trafficking charges, a member of his group said.
Takayuki Noguchi, 32, was taken into custody in the southern Chinese city of Nanning on Dec. 10 with an interpreter and two North Korean defectors.
Hiroshi Kato, leader of the Tokyo-based Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, said Japan’s Foreign Ministry had confirmed the indictment.
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