A/HRC/WGAD/2013/36 concerning persons deprived of their liberty, is unlikely to facilitate any constructive dialogue. 24. As the Government has not provided any information about the situation of the petitioners, the Working Group, according to its methods of work, has to rely on the information provided by the source concerning the detention of the petitioners. 25. The Working Group recalls its Opinion No. 4/2012 (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and No. 47/2012 (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) in which the Working Group held that the detention of the persons concerned was arbitrary. It requested that the Government take the necessary steps to remedy the situation, i.e. the immediate release of these individuals, and accord them an enforceable right to compensation in accordance with article 9, paragraph 5 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 26. The Working Group also takes note of Human Rights Council resolution 7/15 of 2008 on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and recalls all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including Commission resolutions 2004/13 and 2005/11 and Assembly resolution 62/167. 27. In addition, the Working Group refers to the concluding observations of a number of treaty bodies in respect of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC/C/PRK/CO/4), the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW/C/PRK/CO/1), the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/2004/22, paras. 510-558) and the Human Rights Committee (CCPR/CO/72/PRK). The Human Rights Committee expressed its serious concern at several issues related to detention and the lack of compatibility of the legislation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with the prohibition of forced labour contained in article 8, paragraph 3 (a), of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 28. The Working Group further notes the important work of other charter-based bodies of the United Nations, including resolution 2004/13 of the Commission on Human Rights on the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and reporting by the special procedures mandate holders. 29. In his most recent report to the General Assembly (A/68/319), the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea stated that, according to information received, labour camps have been in operation in the country since the 1950s and individuals who have committed, or are perceived to have committed, a political crime are involuntarily or forcibly taken to an interrogation facility, detained and typically subjected to torture until a confession is obtained. Once declared guilty, detainees are either executed or transferred to a prison camp where they are held incommunicado and without trial in harsh conditions. Furthermore, it is alleged that prisoners, including children, have been subjected to forced labour and that torture and public executions are common within the camps. It is also reported that women are subject to rape, forced abortion and killing and that the majority of prisoners in at least four camps remain in custody until their death. At least 40,000 prisoners have reportedly perished in the camps. 30. The Working Group further takes note of the attention drawn by the Special Rapporteur to the particularly worrying practice, widely documented by the United Nations, of detention due to guilt by association, whereby when a person is punished for a political or ideological crime, members of his or her family are also punished, with up to three generations of family members sent on this basis to the camps. Detainees are often not 5