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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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