Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'labor camps'

A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...

Would-Be Olympic Protester Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESJanuary 16, 2009 A legal advocate who was arrested after applying to hold a protest in Beijing during the Olympic Games in August has been sentenced to three years in prison, said a...

New Book Looks Unflinchingly at 1959-79 Tibet

By RADIO FREE ASIA February 25, 2008 When Chinese troops suppressed a nationalist uprising in Tibet's capital city Lhasa in 1959, a curtain came down over Tibet. Thousands were killed in fighting across the country or vanished into labor camps...