Otto Warmbier, an American college student jailed in North Korea, has been released, according to his parents.
"He is being medivacked to the US. The brutalization and terrorism the North Koreans have put upon Otto and the Warmbier family have ended. Thank God," they told CNN.
Warmbier was detained in January 2016 at the airport in Pyongyang. North Korean authorities said they had security footage of him trying to steal a banner containing a political slogan that was hanging from the walls of his hotel.
That was used as evidence in his hour-long trial, during which North Korea accused him of committing "hostile acts" against the regime. He was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years hard labor.
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