A North Korean fisherman convicted of assaulting members of the Russian coast guard has appealed his 13-year sentence to a penal colony, a spokeswoman for the Primorsky Regional Court confirmed to NK News on Monday.

The appeal came just one week after the Vladivostok court found 12 North Korean fishermen guilty of attacking the Russian coast guard while illegally squid fishing in the East Sea in Sept. 2019.

According to the spokeswoman, the defendant’s lawyers have appealed to a regional court in Novosibirsk, where it will be treated as a new case. It’s unclear how long it will take for