Pastors Arrested in China for Smuggling Persecuted North Koreans
"The arrested pastors are known to have insisted that they helped North Korean defectors as they were at risk of being repatriated to the North where human rights violations are serious," an official from Justice for North Korea said, according to Yonhap News.
The two ministers, who were separately detained, had apparently been assisting North Korean defectors in leaving China.