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  • The civil suits follow recent federal grand-jury indictments against employees of the Beverly Hills, Calif.-based contractor, Global Horizons, accusing them of a forced-labor scheme.

    U.S. Suits Say Farms Abused Thai Laborers Tamara Audi 2011

  • Their heirs are to be found in the dungeons of Cairo and the forced-labor camps spread across China.

    End the Silence on Ai Weiwei Guy Verhofstadt 2011

  • In 1944 he was imprisoned in a forced-labor camp but escaped and then got by on his wits, posing as a member of a Nazi youth group.

    Gastronomic Guru Restyled Food Scene Stephen Miller 2011

  • You might be able to set up your forced-labor plantations for old people in a post-apocalypse scenario, but any traditional culture, from hunter-gatherer to urban high tech, would collect you and deal with you as a lunatic or a murderer.

    Matthew Yglesias » How Waterboarding Was Done 2010

  • Ms. Sawyer, what percentage of Chinese made goods originated from these forced-labor camps have illegally entered the United States market?

    Heidiminx: Can ABC World News get Answers? Heidiminx 2010

  • Had McDowell been able to see Perm-36, the last remaining Gulag forced-labor camp, which is now a tourist attraction and memorial, he'd have needed no further explanation.

    Gulag a Go-Go Jeremy Hildreth 2010

  • Ms. Sawyer, what percentage of Chinese made goods originated from these forced-labor camps have illegally entered the United States market?

    Heidiminx: Can ABC World News get Answers? Heidiminx 2010

  • That's no longer the case, but I remember sitting in your office in the winter of 1972, reading an article in the New York Times about a priest in Tirana, Albania who was executed by firing squad for baptizing a newborn child in a forced-labor camp.

    William Friedkin: A Quiet Little Thriller William Friedkin 2010

  • Belgians whose former leader had transformed the country into a forced-labor camp, taken hostages in lieu of paying wages as a way to incentivize rubber harvesting, and maimed and murdered many seem to have no business laughing at the infantile Congolese depicted in Herg

    Tintin in the Land of the Lawyers 2010

  • Zvieli, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary who endured forced-labor and prisoner-of-war camps, said he was not fazed.

    Allegations of racism and questions about an Israeli town's character Joel Greenberg 2010

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