North Korea’s supreme court has sentenced a 21-year-old UVa student to 15 years in prison on subversion charges.

washingtonpost.com

His crime? Trying to snag a propaganda poster to take home for a friend.

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea’s highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for subversion. He allegedly attempted to steal a propaganda banner from a restricted area of his hotel at the request of an acquaintance who wanted to hang it in her church.

Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial at the North’s Supreme Court. He was charged with subversion.