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labour camp
(redirected from Labor camps)

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labour camp
n
1. a penal colony involving forced labour
2. a camp for migratory labourers
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Noun1.labour camp - a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor
labor camp
camp - a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners"
Translations
labour camp, (US) labor camp
n → Arbeitslager nt
labour camp labor camp (Am) n → campo di lavoro
labour camp labor camp (Am) n → campo di lavoro


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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.
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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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