Sentences with phrase «labour camp»

There will be disappointment in the local Labour camp tonight.

«This includes banishing those who follow a religion to remote places, incarcerating them, subjecting them to torture in labour camps, and murdering Christians for merely possessing a Bible.

The Romanian - born real estate tycoon survived Nazi labour camps before arriving in Canada in 1951.

Esther, whose name has been changed for safety reasons, was sentenced to a few months detention in a small North Korean labour camp after she was arrested for escaping to China.

Any Christians caught publicly practicing their faith can be sent to hard labour camp, but they can also be sentenced if a family member was caught practicing their faith or even if they become Christian and move to China, they can still be sent back and imprisoned, according to the report.

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.

Sources in both UKIP and Labour camps told of how Mackinlay tried to abandon the South Thanet campaign in September to stand as the Tory candidate in the by - election for Rochester and Strood, an area he knows far better.

According to Human Rights Watch, some 160,000 people remained, at the beginning of last year, in unmarked labour camps across China.

A notorious pair of man - eating lions that teamed up to terrorize Kenyan labour camps more than 100 years ago did not have the same taste for human flesh, a new study suggests.

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II.

Over 15,000 Jews at a time were crammed into this district, designed forjust3, 000 residents and then divided into those who were able to work and those that weren't, who were then sent off to concentration or labour camps outside of the city.

Epic in scope, this tale of family feuds, violence and hardship follows the fortunes of Theo Mykolayenko, a Ukrainian survivor of Stalin's labour camps who starts a new life in the harsh Canadian Prairies... Beautifully pitched and unsentimental in execution.

Perhaps I have an overactive mind but my imagination was in happy overdrive conjuring up images of the gold rush or 19th century labour camp towns.

Considering the fact that the same thing was done in Assassin's Creed Unity, it would be okay, were it not for the fact that every line is spoken without a hint of enthusiasm or feeling as if the actors were workers in a communist labour camp and had been ordered to read lines whilst trying to remember what emotion or character feels like.

A Chinese bishop who spent six years in labour camps and repeatedly refused to be a part of China's state - monitored... More

Just six at the outbreak of the Second World War, Jugovic still recalls his family's journey across the Una River, the physical frontier between Croatia and Bosnia, and into the Nazi labour camp.

Yes I suppose Ince & Co isn't a bad firm, much like how a North Korean labour camp isn't a bad way to spend your summer

In the same period, more than a million others were sent to the labour camps of the Gulag, from where many would not return.

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.

Despite this, Open Doors estimates that there are between 200,000 and 400,000 Christians in North Korea, worshiping secretly, or imprisoned in labour camps.

In Czechoslovakia in 1950 three quarters of all religious clergy and half of all priests were sent to labour camps and Sr Zdenka Schelingova was tortured to death for allowing a sick priest to escape from the hospital where she worked.

A North Korean defector has told of her experience in a labour camp that led her to faith in Jesus C...

A North Korean defector has told of her experience in a labour camp that led her to faith in Jesus Christ.

It's lead to tens of thousands of Christians being incarcerated in labour camps, and thousands more keeping their faith in Christ a complete secret.

These are then distributed to the mosques, labour camps and to all the needy across.

But for a campaign so far ahead of their rivals, there remains a distinct unease in the Labour camp about what will happen after the polls close on May 5th.

On the other hand, re-education through labour (RETL)(laojiao (劳教)-RRB-, a draconian detention programme, has long been a focal point for critics of China's human rights record, whereby China's police can sentence an individual to three years (with a possible 4th year extension) in a labour camp without a trial

There is no sense of urgency or mission from the Labour camp.

Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of Unite, said workers had likened the conditions to a «gulag», or «labour camp» and described the conditions as «19th century working practices».

23:20 - First comments from our man in the Labour camp: «It's been a very busy day.

The Labour camp are just as bad.

Perhaps voters in Eastleigh will enjoy the do - or - die spirit emanating from the Labour camp at the moment.

Al Campbell on twitter is having a feeding frenzy over Lord Ashcroft but I've tried to correct the mistaken impression that all in the Labour camp is rosy.

There was also concern within the Labour camp that Jack Straw's criticism of the Pakistani community at the weekend for not being «more open» about the sexual grooming of young white girls had become an electoral factor among Muslim voters.

He insisted that the mood in the Labour camp had lifted.

One obvious weakness that the Yes camp should have in the Labour camp is its promotion of «coalition politics» which Nick Clegg is doing an outstanding job of making a by - word for breaking your word.

Of note is the new seat of Lancaster and Fleetwood which - despite being based on much of the Tory seat of Lancaster and Wyre - is now notionally in the Labour camp.

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.

He then has no choice but to tell his exhausted musicians to re-perform for a recording, and to round up another conductor in circumstances reminiscent of preparing someone to be sent to a labour camp.

Audiences are led by actors dressed as prison guards and law enforcement officers through different sets — cathedral, courtroom, labour camp.

The Chinese and Russian governments would not doubt agree in the context of their criminal codes and relevant punishments eg gaol, labour camp, execution on the grounds of damaging State property.

Everyone, surely, knew that the men listed had been caught up in the purge, and sent to the labour camps for interment.

It began as a labour camp, but soon it grew into something far more sinister.