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Who is Otto Warmbier, the college student held prisoner in North Korea

Veronika Bondarenko,David ChoiJun 18, 2017, 13:03 IST

Otto Frederick Warmbier (C), a University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea since early January, is taken to North Korea's top court in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo March 16, 2016.REUTERS/Kyodo

After serving a year of a 15-year prison sentence for stealing a poster from a hotel in North Korea, American detainee Otto Warmbier was released and returned to his family in the US.

Warmbier has reportedly been in a coma for a year and has been in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness," his doctors said.

For the time being, it is unclear what truly happened during the year Warmbier spent in North Korea - despite North Korea's account that Warmbier contracted botulism and went into a coma after taking a pill to help him sleep.

Here is what we know about the 22-year-old who spent more than a year imprisoned in North Korea: