gulag
Example Sentences
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He even agreed to betray informants under U.S. protection to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in exchange for an agreement to lock up purported Venezuelan gang members in El Salvador’s gruesome gulag.
From Salon
Navalny’s transfer in December 2023 to a remote prison in the Arctic, to a facility once part of the Soviet-era gulag forced labor system, made access to him almost impossible, his wife said.
In the Soviet Union, jokes about Joseph Stalin or the Communist Party were treated as serious crimes against the state, warranting time in the gulag.
From Los Angeles Times
They are deporting people to foreign gulags and countries with which they have no connection, family, money or support.
From Salon
He has ordered hundreds of people to be deprived of liberty in a foreign gulag, without charge or trial, and his administration is illegally impounding funds authorized by Congress.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
