The American student Otto Warmbier (21 years) who was detained by the North Korea government over the hostile act of trying to remove a political banner from an hotel has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. An official in the government stated that he might spend that time planting apple trees.
CNN reports the the trial lasted reportedly a hour. The North Korean government accused the CIA, a secretive university organization and even a church member in Ohio, the student's home church of putting the student up to the crime.
Warmbier had traveled to Pyongyang on a trip organized by Young Pioneer Tours, a China-based travel company. He was arrested on January 2, 2016 as he was about to board a plane to leave the country.
The United States government has however condemned the sentencing and had urged the North Korean government to pardon him and grand him immediate release on humanitarian grounds.
We will keep in touch and see how this story unfolds.
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