SEOUL: A group of South Korean human rights lawyers filed a police complaint on Friday accusing the country’s spy chief of illegally detaining a dozen North Korean restaurant workers who defected in April.

All 12 were waitresses at a North Korea-themed restaurant in China who arrived in the South with their manager, making headlines as the largest group defection in years.

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