The disturbing news that an American citizen was held for over a year in a coma, without receiving adequate medical attention and with no access to consular visits or communication with his family, is shocking even by the draconian standards of North Korea.

The University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier was released for what Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has declared were “humanitarian reasons” and medevacked home on June 13.

“We want the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah regime,” Fred and Cindy Warmbier said in a statement upontheir