A former pastor of one of Canada's largest churches has been released after spending two years in
forced labour camps and prisons in North Korea.
Not exact matches
Marco was arrested for being «too Catholic», and Natalia volunteered to go with a group of women rounded up for
forced labour; both died in concentration
camps.
Back then, it concentrated on the plight of Christians in Eastern Europe - behind what was called the Iron Curtain, where a Soviet - dominated system, backed by torture and imprisonment in the Gulag
forced -
labour camps, imposed an official atheism.
Meanwhile, the SNP continue to be over-represented in Scotland, as is
Labour in Wales, while Northern Ireland voters are
forced into two
camps.
Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple
forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a
labour camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident.
Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as
forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in
camps by 20109.
Outside of the
camps, there are an estimated 2.4 million documented and undocumented Burmese migrant workers, making up 80 percent of the migrant worker population and five percent of Thailand's total
labour force in critical industries like shrimp factories (IOM 2011).