clipped from: www.christianpost.com 
WASHINGTON – A Christian persecution watch group, with the support of U.S. lawmakers, launched a worldwide campaign effort Tuesday to free a North Korean man awaiting public execution for the crime of simply being a Christian.
The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), an international ministry which assists persecuted Christians around the world, is calling on people around the world to help free the North Korean Christian Son Jong Nam.
Son was a former North Korean army officer who came to believe in Jesus Christ during his escape to China where he met a South Korean missionary. He has reportedly been beaten, tortured and held both in China and in North Korea for being a Christian. He is now currently in a death row basement jail in the capital city Pyongyang. The Christian evangelist is said to be sentenced to public execution as an example to the North Korean people.