China charges LFNKR's Noguchi with 'helping smuggle people out of the country' - he faces a possible 10 years in prison there if convicted. (Japan Times) China charges North escapee abettor BEIJING (Kyodo) Chinese prosecutors have indicted a member of a Japanese nongovernmental organization who was detained for helping to smuggle two North Koreans into China, according to the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. Prosecutors of the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southwest China on Monday indicted Takayuki Noguchi, 32, of the Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, charging him with assisting in smuggling people out of the country in December so they could flee to Vietnam, according to the embassy. It is the first such indictment against a Japanese helping North Koreans flee from their homeland via China. A local court is expected to render a ruling within 1 1/2 months. Under the Chinese criminal... [Free North Korea!]
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