Otto Warmbier, who was released from North Korea in coma, died

Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, Washington Post reported quoting his parents.
Warmbier, 22, arrested in North Korea for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster while on a trip to the country. He had been sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor.
Fred and Cindy Warmbier had no news about their son during his detention after March of last year. He was not allowed consular visits, and it was not until this month that U.S. officials and the family were told that he had been in a coma for more than a year. He was medically evacuated, landed in Cincinnati on Tuesday night and was rushed to the hospital.
On Thursday, doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said that the 22-year-old Otto Warmbier had extensive loss of brain tissue, and was in a state of unresponsive wakefulness.
That morning Fred Warmbier denounced what he called the “pariah” regime that brutalized his son.