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China may end long-hated labor re-education camps
Zhao Meifu, a farmer from Gansu province, on March 9 shows the papers of her labor camp detention in Beijing. (AP Photo)
March 12, 2013
BEIJING--All it took was a handwritten note from police to send Zhao Meifu to a labor camp for a year in China's arid northwest.
Chinese province to halt labor camp sentences
A police officer carries an inmate during an evacuation drill in a women's re-education through labor camp in China's Chongqing Municipality on May 22, 2006. (AP file photo)
February 07, 2013
BEIJING--A southern Chinese province has suspended labor camp sentences, becoming the first in the country to take steps to phase out the much-criticized system.
China to reform controversial forced labor camps
A police officer carries an inmate during an evacuation drill in a women's re-education through labor camp in China's Chongqing Municipality on May 22, 2006. (AP file photo)
January 07, 2013
BEIJING--China will reform its controversial system of forced labor camps this year, state media reported on Jan. 7, which would mark a first step toward legal reform promised...
China is reforming problematic labor camp system
In this Dec. 3, 2010 file photo, a paramilitary policeman stands guard at an entrance of China's Supreme Court in Beijing. China's system of imprisoning people in labor camps without trial is problematic, and the government is working on reforms. (AP Photo)
October 09, 2012
BEIJING--China's system of imprisoning people in labor camps without trial is problematic, and the government is working on reforms, a senior judicial official said on Oct. 9.
Book reveals hidden horror of North Korean labor...
In this book cover image released by Viking, "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West," by Blaine Harden, is shown. (AP photo)
April 23, 2012
LONDON--"Escape from Camp 14" makes for grim reading. Journalist Blaine Harden's account of a young man's life in and escape from a labor camp in secretive North Korea has...
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