South Korean cult leader who held 400 people captive in Fiji jailed for six years

Shin Ok-ju, founder of the Grace Road Church, subjected followers to beatings and confiscated their passports

The leader of a South Korean doomsday cult who held 400 people captive in Fiji and subjected them to violent beatings has been sentenced to six years in jail.

Shin Ok-ju, founder of the Grace Road Church, convinced her followers to move to Fiji in 2014, which she said was the “promised land”, pointed to in the Bible, where they would survive coming apocalyptic events.

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