Word: labor-camp
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...Solzhenitsyn published a memoir, Invisible Allies, in which he honors the people who helped him protect his writings from the state. It reads like a spy novel--coded messages, boxes with false bottoms--yet the danger was real. Were it not for these friends, from the fellow zeks (labor-camp inmates) who assisted him to the foreign journalists who smuggled out manuscripts, Gulag might not have seen the light...
...competence, not creativity, pushed him through the party ranks, Hu, 61, seems ill suited to the task. On his watch, some 3,000 people were sentenced for political and religious crimes last year. Yet a growing number of activists who push for cautious change--like curbing the country's labor-camp gulags and ending arbitrary police detentions--take heart from Hu's reluctance to crack down on their efforts. Many see him as a pragmatist who will continue the party's slow withdrawal from a complex society. "Hu isn't changing China. China is changing Hu," says Li Fan, director...
...spiritual practice, Liu traveled three times to protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The last time, in November, she took her four-year-old daughter and unfurled a yellow banner reading THE FALUN LAW IS THE UNIVERSAL LAW! Police jailed Liu and threatened to dispatch her to China's labor-camp gulag. Her parents, terrified, begged her to disavow her beliefs; her husband smacked her face; her boss threatened her job. Liu waved them away. Then someone brought her weeping daughter to jail, and Liu's will broke. In writing, she promised never to protest again...
...police surrounding his house. Three weeks later, the authorities broke in to discover his grandmother and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide. The boy and his mother were incarcerated at the kindergarten where she taught, but refused to renounce Falun Gong. So last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, his mother gave her son to other practitioners, kissed him goodbye and fled. "We talked on the phone last month for about a minute," he says. "She is trying to find a school...
...aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide, presumably to avoid persecution. They incarcerated the boy's mother in the kindergarten where she taught. She slept on a cot in the storeroom. The boy slept beside her. They refused to renounce Falun Gong. Last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, the mother entrusted her son to other practitioners, kissed him goodbye and fled. "We talked on the phone last month for about a minute," he mumbles uncomfortably. "She is trying to find a school...