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Recent Examples of prison camp
Watch: The truth about Stalin’s prison camps The most influential of Stalin memorials is being raised in the minds of the young.
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Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
An investigation conducted by a United Nations tribunal into the crimes committed at the prison camp led to the conviction of two top commanders at the camp and a guard for numerous crimes, including murder and torture.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
Specifically, North Korean Christians endure serious bodily or mental harm, killing, and targeting of their children through severe public executions for their faith, being sent to political prison camps, and the targeting of their children through the Kim regime’s brutality.
—Olivia Enos, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
He had been injured during the war and spent time in a Confederate prison camp.
—Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2024
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Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
An investigation conducted by a United Nations tribunal into the crimes committed at the prison camp led to the conviction of two top commanders at the camp and a guard for numerous crimes, including murder and torture.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
Specifically, North Korean Christians endure serious bodily or mental harm, killing, and targeting of their children through severe public executions for their faith, being sent to political prison camps, and the targeting of their children through the Kim regime’s brutality.
—Olivia Enos, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
He had been injured during the war and spent time in a Confederate prison camp.
—Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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It was described in the script as representing the barracks of the concentration camps where Tóth and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) were imprisoned.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
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The ambiguities that result are fascinating and provocative, though Corbet never quite thinks them through: If László is creating, in effect, architectural poetry after Auschwitz, does this poetry redeem the cruelty and brutality of the concentration camps or reproduce it?Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
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Repression and surveillance are now everywhere, although few expect a return to the labor camps and mass executions of the 1950s and 1960s.Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
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Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Selly’s father escaped from a work camp and returned to Budapest.Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
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If convicted as charged, the men face sentences ranging from probation to seven years and two months in jail, according to prosecutors.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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In addition, some defendants have been held in jail for weeks or months without the ability to speak to their attorney, according to the ACLU of Idaho.Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
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In September, the Yankees removed Stroman from their rotation and began preparing him for a possible bullpen role for when the playoffs started.Brendan Kuty, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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The Chicago Cubs need a closer to finalize their bullpen for 2025.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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