US student released by North Korea is in coma
Otto Warmbier had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labour after he confessed to stealing a propaganda banner during a visit to North Korea in January last year.
North Korea has released a 22-year old American student jailed 17 months ago.
Otto Warmbier had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labour after he confessed to stealing a propaganda banner during a visit to North Korea in January last year.
He was freed a week after a high-level US diplomatic mission but his parents learned their son has been in coma since his jail term began.
Al Jazeera’s Daniel Lak reports from Cincinnati.
Published On 14 Jun 2017