Lisa Ling's Sister Gets 12 Years of Hard Labor in North Korea

Lisa Ling's Sister Gets 12 Years of Hard Labor in North Korea
OK! Magazine reports that journalist Laura Ling—sister of former The View co-hostess Lisa Ling—has been sentenced, along with her colleague Euna Lee, to 12 years of "reform through labor" at a prison camp in North Korea following a five-day trial, during which they were convicted of "grave crimes" against the country. Ling and Lee had been on assignment for Al Gore's Current TV, doing a story in China on the international trafficking of women in the sex trade, when they were arrested on March 17. The two were accused of crossing into North Korea illegally, but it has been speculated that the…
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