labour camps

The authorities still crack down on any signs of opposition and send outspoken dissidents to labour camps.

At his death in 1953, the labour camps had never been so full.

They centralized power, eliminated rival parties, attacked religion, established secret police forces and sent dissenters to labour camps.

Its revelations about Stalin's policies and the evils of the labour camps were described as "a literary miracle" .

But he was quickly captured and spent the next nine years in Soviet labour camps.

More than a million civilians were sent to labour camps to be worked or starved to death.

Shortly before the war's end, Solzhenitsyn was arrested and sentenced to eight years in the labour camps.

It is different from the mainstream system of prisons and labour camps whose inmates have been through the judicial system.

The report also criticised the use of coerced confessions from prisoners, extrajudicial killings, torture and forced labour camps.

Witnesses claim he was seen in Soviet prisons or labour camps many years later, although those accounts were never verified.

Veteran airmen were demoted, tossed out or sent to labour camps due to their exposure to the West.

From the mid 1960s the consignment of dissenters to the forced-labour camps has again become a regular practice.

According to human rights groups, several applicants were sent back to their home provinces or put in 're-education through labour' camps.

Many mentally-ill patients were taken from hospitals and sent to labour camps because of their "counterrevolutionary" behaviour.

His experience in the labour camps was described in his short novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Between July and September 1942, the Nazis shipped 300, 000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to "labour camps" .

In Dubai, workers from South Asia are shuttled in from desert labour camps in the same yellow buses that ferry American children to school.

Mao sent millions of parents into labour camps and their children to the countryside;

The government says it will reform its system of labour camps