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American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea

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Born: Otto Frederick Warmbier , ( 1994-12-12 ) December 12, 1994, Cincinnati , Ohio, U.S.
Died: June 19, 2017 (2017-06-19) (aged 22), Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Resting place: Oak Hill Cemetery, Glendale, Ohio , U.S.
Education: University of Virginia
Country: North Korea
Detained: January 2, 2016
Charge: Subversion (through alleged attempted theft of a propaganda poster)
Sentence: 15 years imprisonment with hard labor
Released: June 12, 2017

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Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon after his parents requested his feeding tube be removed.

Warmbier entered North Korea as part of a guided tour group on December 29, 2015. On January 2, 2016, he was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport while awaiting departure from the country. He was convicted of attempting to steal a propaganda poster from his hotel, for which he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment with hard labor.