REUTERS , BEIJING
Sunday, Jun 27, 2004,Page 5
A Chinese court delivers its verdict tomorrow on a Japanese aid worker charged with trying to help two Japan-born North Korean asylum seekers flee China, a Tokyo-based human rights group said yesterday.
The date of the court's judgment on Takayuki Noguchi appeared timed to avoid coinciding with a third round of six-nation talks in Beijing trying to defuse a crisis over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. The four-day talks ended yesterday.
"He should not be arrested or persecuted like this. He is in no way a criminal," the group, Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, said in a statement.
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