"North Korean defector wins Human Rights Watch award"

Shin Dong-hyuk, a North Korean defector born in a prison camp, has been selected as a winner of the Human Rights Watch’s annual award for his efforts to promote awareness of the North’s horrific human rights situation, the group said Tuesday.

Shin was named one of four recipients of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, along with Father Bernard Kinvi from the Central African Republic, Arwa Othman from Yemen, and Dr. M.R. Rajagopal from India, the group said in a release.