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World Service,23 Sep 2013,9 mins

Re-education in Communist China

Witness History

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Re-education is still used as a form of punishment in Communist China. Hear from Robert Ford, a British man who spent five years being re-educated in the 1950s after being captured by Chinese soldiers in Tibet. (Photo: Chinese soldiers enter Tibet in 1950. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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