Otto Warmbier is in a coma at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
In 2015, he left on a trip to North Korea that would last 18 months. After being sentenced to 15 years hard labor for "crimes against the state" (attempting to take a propaganda poster), the 22-year-old University of Virginia student was detained in one of North Korea's horrifying prisons. The prisons are places the U.N. has acknowledged where grotesque human rights violations which the world has not seen since Stalin's gulags. -- More...