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According to the report, a United Nations Human Rights Council group added 12 missing Japanese people not officially recognized as victims of North Korea's abductions to a list compiled to urge Pyongyang to confirm their safety, sources have said.
The report stated that Kazuhiro Araki, head of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea, hoped that the Japanese government would take this opportunity to provide information to the United Nations and change the situation.
The report also said that the Human Rights Council working group on enforced disappearances compiled a list of about 40 people, including government-recognized abductees such as Megumi Yokota, who was 13 when abducted in Niigata Prefecture, and missing people not officially recognized as abduction victims but likely to have been kidnapped by North Korea, commission and other sources said.
The HR said that they sent the list to North Korea in February to request that the country confirm the safety of those on the list and guarantee that their human rights are protected.
In addition, these 12 people, not officially recognized, would be added to the list, including Takashi Osawa, who was 27 at the time of his disappearance in 1974 on Niigata's Sado Island, and Minako Nakamura, who went missing at age 18 in Niigata's Nagaoka in 1998.
Source: PNA/ (Jiji Press)
The report stated that Kazuhiro Araki, head of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea, hoped that the Japanese government would take this opportunity to provide information to the United Nations and change the situation.
The report also said that the Human Rights Council working group on enforced disappearances compiled a list of about 40 people, including government-recognized abductees such as Megumi Yokota, who was 13 when abducted in Niigata Prefecture, and missing people not officially recognized as abduction victims but likely to have been kidnapped by North Korea, commission and other sources said.
The HR said that they sent the list to North Korea in February to request that the country confirm the safety of those on the list and guarantee that their human rights are protected.
In addition, these 12 people, not officially recognized, would be added to the list, including Takashi Osawa, who was 27 at the time of his disappearance in 1974 on Niigata's Sado Island, and Minako Nakamura, who went missing at age 18 in Niigata's Nagaoka in 1998.
Source: PNA/ (Jiji Press)