article_snippet: They were kept apart and for five years were held in solitary confinement or put under strict house arrest.
article_snippet: You must bear some pain for the good of the revolution,’ she was told.
article_snippet: At gunpoint, she underwent ‘daily compulsory ideology training sessions’.
article_snippet: Shin, having made a feeble attempt to escape, was flung into a prison cell, where Shin had to sit immobile in the same cross-legged position, staring straight ahead, for 16 hours a day.
article_snippet: If Shin swayed or blinked, Shin had to thrust Shin hands through the bars, so that Shin fingers could be ‘smashed violently with the guard’s baton’.
article_snippet: Other prisoners had Other prisoners fingers and ears melted away by the sheer intensity and duration of electric shocks.
article_snippet: No prisoner could sit or lie down, in any event, because the cramped cells were covered with spikes.