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labor camp stories: 4 news summaries

Brutal North Korean Labor Camps Hold 200K

Prisoners face 15-hour days, malnutrition, executions: Korean bar

Jul 20, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 200,000 political prisoners are held in North Korean labor camps, where they work up to 15 hours a day before dying of malnutrition by about age 50, the Washington Post reports. Testimony from survivors and former guards has been newly published by the Korean Bar Association, and new... More »

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North Korea • political prisoner • Kim Jong Il • labor camp • prison camp

China Sentences 2 Aged Women to 'Re-education'

Pair, nearly 80, face forced labor for attempt at housing protest

Aug 21, 08 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Officials in Beijing had promised that Chinese could hold demonstrations during the Olympics, so long as they applied for permission. But of 77 applications, none have been approved—and now, writes the New York Times, two old women upset about the small compensation for the demolition of their homes have... More »

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China • Beijing • political demonstrations • protesters • labor camp

Chinese Teacher Sent to Labor Camp Over Quake Dissent

Man posted photos
of collapsed schools

Jul 30, 08 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labor camp for a year of "re-education" after he posted online photos of school buildings that collapsed during the Sichuan earthquake, the Guardian reports. The man, who was neither formally charged with a crime nor given a trial, is one of... More »

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labor camp • dissent • China earthquake

Obituary

 'Killing Fields'
 Photog Dith 
 Dead at 65 

Times photojournalist and anti-Khmer Rouge crusader had pancreatic cancer

Mar 30, 08 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful... More »

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genocide • New York Times • Thailand • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • Cambodia • Khmer Rouge • Dith Pran • Sydney Schanberg • photojournalist • photojournalism • labor camp • The Killing Fields

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