Story highlights Warmbier, 22, has been in a coma since March 2016, according to his parentsThe University of Virginia student was detained in January 2016 at the airport in Pyongyang on his way homePyongyang, North Korea (CNN) American college student Otto Warmbier has been released after more than 17 months in detention in North Korea but has been in a coma for over a year, according to his parents. "Otto has left North Korea. Sadly, he is in a coma and we have been told he has been in that condition since March of 2016. We learned of this only one week ago," said Fred and Cindy Warmbier in a statement. "We want the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah regime in North Korean.

Source: CNN June 13, 2017 13:55 UTC