Labour Camp

US seeks North Korea amnesty for American jailed for 15 years

2 May 2013

North Korea sentenced US citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labour on Thursday for what it said were crimes against the state, a move that will likely see him used as a bargaining chip in talks...

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Films document horror of labour camps 50 years ago and today

1 May 2013

When Xie Yihui read about the deaths of many children in a Sichuan "re-education through labour" camp in the early 1960s, she was horrified.

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China news in brief, 1 May, 2013

1 May 2013

Two commit suicide at Foxconn, report says

2:41AM

'Petition mother' Tang Hui's determined fight for justice over daughter's rape

25 Apr 2013

Tang Hui, whose daughter was kidnapped, raped and sold to a brothel six years ago, should be bitter but is calmly resolute in her fight for justice.

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Authorities reject report on torture at women's labour camp in Liaoning

22 Apr 2013

Liaoning authorities have lashed back at a news report alleging torture at a women's labour camp, calling the piece phony and containing “malicious attack rhetoric” characteristic of the outlawed...

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Mother sent to labour camp has compensation claim rejected

13 Apr 2013

A court in Hunan dismissed a compensation claim by a mother who was sent to a labour camp during her five-year campaign to demand tougher punishment for the men who raped her 11-year-old daughter...

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Women 'chained up and tortured' in labour camp

A rarely seen report by a Chinese monthly has exposed some of the dark practices of a Liaoning labour camp including torture and inhuman treatment of female prisoners at a time when the government...

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Woman gets locked in morgue after labour camp, Beijing petition

Like many petitioners who dare to journey to Beijing to seek redress for injustices, Chen Qingxia soon found herself sent to toil in a dingy labour camp.

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Ending re-education through labour must lead to curbs on police powers

The detested administrative punishment of "re-education through labour" may finally end this year.

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Is this really the end of re-education through labour?

Much ink has been spilled during the past week over the informal announcement that China's police-imposed long-term punishment of "re-education through labour" would, by the end of the year, "...

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Briefs, January 13, 2013

The mother of an underage rape victim in Hunan province said yesterday that she would lodge an administrative lawsuit after authorities rejected her demand for state compensation for the time she...

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