The rights to personal liberty and safety include the right not to be arrested or detained without consideration and the right of a person deprived of his or her rights and freedom to be treated while being provided with the elementary human rights.
In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, an act of arresting and detaining a person imprudently without being based on the law is thoroughly prohibited.
The DPRK Criminal Law stipulates to charge criminal responsibility in case a judicial officer arrests, detains and seizes a person or frisks a person or house and seizes and confiscates his or her property illegally.
It is not allowed to deprive of a person’s freedom without being based on the conditions and processes stipulated in the criminal law and criminal procedure law. In case a judicial officer arrests a citizen, the former must immediately inform the latter of the reason for arrest or the suspicion contents, and a person under arrest or detention has the right to be on trial or released in a given period.
A person who is deprived of his or her freedom by the law is treated while being provided with the elementary human rights, and the suspected persons receive a treatment coinciding with a person’s position of not committing a crime while being isolated with the condemned persons.
A person, who is illegally arrested or suffers damage due to imprisonment, has the right to claim compensation.
