No, you read the post title correctly. A reader sent this to me today, via the Australian:
NORTH Korea has accused Australia of violating human rights by locking up 27 crew from the drug ship Pong Su in Port Augusta’s Baxter detention centre.
Pyongyang, which has one of the world’s most appalling human rights records, has protested to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer about the treatment of the crew, and wants them returned home.
Twenty Six of the Pong Su crew, whom the Federal Court found insufficient evidence to proceed against, had been on a hunger strike for a week. They agreed on Monday to end it after three were hospitalised.
A North Korean official told The Australian yesterday that “nobody in Australia” wanted to help them.
“They are innocent and to hold them is against human rights,” he said. “They should be returned home.”
That’s right — locking thousands of political prisoners in gulags is fine, but confining 27 drug runners in an Australian detention camp constitutes human rights abuse. Time for “Australia Freedom Day” rallies, I guess.
Read the rest on your own.
