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labour camp
(redirected from Labor camps)

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Noun1.labour camp - a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor
camp - a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners"
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labour camp (US), labor camp ncamp m de travaux forcés
labour camp labour nArbeitslager nt
labour camp, labor camp ncampo dei lavori forzati

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Chinese authorities have arrested more than 100,000 members of the Falun Gong religious movement and sent at least 20,000 to labor camps.
This is actually a case of truth in labeling, since these Chinese labor camps were established on Saipan, a territorial possession of the United States.
During the resulting intense but brief season of cultural debates, Chinese intellectuals spoke out in growing dissent against Mao's dictatorship; the government responded with brutal repression, arresting, killing, or deporting them to labor camps and banning freedom of thought and speech.
 
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