Sentences with phrase «forced labour camps»

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.

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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).
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