Professor Amann Comments on Journalists' Detention for SF Chronicle
Professor Diane Marie Amann commented for the San Francisco Chronicle on the imprisonment of two American journalists by North Korea. The journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were arrested March 17 while reporting a story on human trafficking and have been sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp for allegedly crossing the border illegally and committing "hostilities" against North Korea.
"I don't think you could get a more difficult situation," said Professor Amann. "If they were captured and tried for these crimes in any other country than North Korea, it would be more straightforward. But there, we don't know who is running the show."
Diane Marie Amann is Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law and Director of the California International Law Center at King Hall. Among her areas of expertise is transnational criminal law, a field about which she has published and in which she practiced while an Assistant Federal Public Defender in San Francisco.