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However, Chinese criminal law still stipulates that prisoners able to work shall "accept education and reform through labor". [14] The existence of an extensive network of forced-labor camps producing consumer goods for export to Europe and the United States became classified. [3] [15] [16] Publication of information about China's prison system ...
Men of the Chinese Labour Corps load sacks of oats onto a lorry at Boulogne while supervised by a British officer (12 August 1917). The Chinese Labour Corps (CLC; French: Corps de Travailleurs Chinois; simplified Chinese: 中国 劳工 旅; traditional Chinese: 中國 勞工 旅; pinyin: Zhōngguó láogōng lǚ) was a labour corps recruited by the British government in the First World War to ...
A photograph of Shayang Re-education Through Labor camp in Hubei province, from the archives of the Laogai Museum. Re-education through labor (RTL; simplified Chinese: 劳动教养; traditional Chinese: 勞動教養; pinyin: láodòng jiàoyǎng), abbreviated laojiao (simplified Chinese: 劳教; traditional Chinese: 勞教; pinyin: láojiào) was a system of administrative detention in the ...
In November 2019, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called on China to close down the camps. He also called on China to permit the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Xinjiang at the earliest possible date to make a report on the situation. [377] The French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs issued a statement on 27 ...
A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms). Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators.
A trove of documents dubbed the "China Cables" has revealed the inner workings of detention camps built to imprison Muslim minorities, especially Uighurs, in China's Xinjiang region.The documents ...
The Laogai Research Foundation was founded in 1992 by Harry Wu, a former political prisoner in the People's Republic of China.Born in 1937 to a prosperous Shanghai family, Wu fell afoul of the Chinese Communist Party while in college and was deemed a counter-revolutionary rightist during the Anti-Rightist Movement. [2]
Re-education through labor (RTL; in Chinese, laodong jiaoyang 劳动教养, abbreviated láojiào 劳教) is a system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China. The estimated number of detainees in re-education through labor camps is anywhere from 300,000 ( China Labor Bulletin , 2007) [ 1 ] to 2 million (Laogai Research ...