debate - Should the American school have protected the NK refugees?

An emotional debate is evolving at the NK zone after the Shanghai American School decided on Monday to hand over nine (not eight as originally reported) North Korean refugees to the Shanghai police. The refugees had entered the school, asking for political asylum.

"Any Western educator in China who does not know the fate of repatriated North Korean refugees should be sent on a field trip to the Auschwitz death camp. What a bunch of losers," writes one of the commenters.
But a parent defends the decision: "As a parent whose children are often in international schools, I am very sympathetic to the position of the school board...These institutions should never be made pawns in a geopolitical struggle--schools should be neutral territory and it is irresponsible to jeopardize that equilibrium."
Others say it was even against international law to hand the asylym seekers to the police: "In this case, this policy had terrible, arguably criminal implications. So, Mr. Sandhu was clearly obligated by a moral imperative, as well as international law - an international treaty to which both the US and China are signatory, to disobey them."