US student freed from North Korea was active in campus Jewish community
Otto Warmbier, 22, a Cincinnati native, was traveling on a student tour of North Korea last year when he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a propaganda poster.
FILE PHOTO - Otto Frederick Warmbier attends a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo February 29, 2016. (photo credit: KYODO/VIA REUTERS)ByDEBORAH JOSEFSON/JTA