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Teenagers have been publicly sentenced to long terms of hard labor for watching or distributing South Korean media.
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Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
My father spent seven years in prison and another two years doing hard labor in Siberia for writing anti-regime flyers from a democratic Marxist point of view.
—Elizabeth Tsurkov, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
That death sentence went all the way to President Franklin Roosevelt, before it was commuted to 50 years at hard labor.
—David Martin, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
The injury meant the hard labor jobs had to stop.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 26 Nov. 2025
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Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
My father spent seven years in prison and another two years doing hard labor in Siberia for writing anti-regime flyers from a democratic Marxist point of view.
—Elizabeth Tsurkov, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
That death sentence went all the way to President Franklin Roosevelt, before it was commuted to 50 years at hard labor.
—David Martin, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
The injury meant the hard labor jobs had to stop.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Hard labor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20labor. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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