Table 1-4
Questions for In-depth Interviews with Witnesses Experienced in PPC
Classification
Items for Survey on PPC
Name, gender, date of birth, date of arrival in South Korea,
place of birth/residence/education/type of work & witness’s
Demographic/Social
role/marital status/family in North Korea, date of last
Background
defection from North Korea, present status of physical and
mental health, present address, present family relation,
present employment and etc.
Process of
experience of PPC
(prisoner or PPC
officials)
Judiciary process such as arrest, preliminary interrogation,
and trial, charges against prisoner, period of detention,
whether or not family was informed, type of work and the
witness’s role, process of beginning/end of detention and
etc.
Location/official name of the PPC, history of PPC including
General Items of
PPC
division or merger, operator and security system (size of
staff), control and labor facilities, size of PPC, organization
of prisoners, number and type by charges against
prisoners, possibility and process of release and etc.
Operational system, security and management systems for
prisoners, rules and regulations for camp authorities and
Operation of PPC
prisoners, facilities for punishment and etc. Size and
operation of the PPC, past and present, type of prisoners by
charges against prisoners, latest development and etc.
Present situations of ration of such provisions as clothing,
Human Rights of
Prisoners,
Past/Present
food and other daily items, family life, health and medical
service, forced labor, facilities for work, treatment of
products, education of prisoners’ children, public/secret
execution, torture, brutality and etc. Sexual violence on
female prisoners, treatment of old people, children and etc.
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