{"id":127239,"date":"2011-11-23T11:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=127239"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T18:04:50","slug":"video-chinas-secret-slave-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2011\/11\/video-chinas-secret-slave-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: China's Secret Slave Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"
Al Jazeera is streaming the most recent episode of “Slavery: a 21st Century Evil<\/a>“. This episode outlines the modern function of laogai <\/em>and laojiao<\/em>\u00a0– <\/em>the institutional practices of forced labor for re-education and reform that have existed since the\u00a0early days of the PRC. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has recommended the Al Jazeera report, and provides a brief summary<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n China is hiding a secret network of more than\u00a01,000 slave labour prison camps<\/a>, in which dissidents are imprisoned without trial and forced to produce consumer goods for export to the west,\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n The investigation states that an estimated 5.5m men and women are held in what some experts describe as \u201cstate sponsored slavery\u201d. Al Jazeera\u2019s report says work from these camps has contributed to the country\u2019s economic boom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n