LRF director Harry Wu and staff attended the ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC. Harry was accompanied by the eight Tibetan former political prisoners who had flown in from India and New York to speak at this week’s LRF conference on Tibet. In honor of China’s Laogai…
Month: June 2012
Tibetan Former Political Prisoners Recall Horrors of the Laogai at LRF Conference
On June 8th, 2012, the Laogai Research Foundation hosted the first day of its “Laogai in Tibet” Conference in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Eight Tibetan exiles (some pictured with Harry Wu below) shared their moving testimonies, which detailed their experiences in the Laogai after protesting, their courage in facing religious and…
Desperation in Tibet: Laogai Research Foundation Invites Tibetan Exiles to Share their Perspective
Since March 2011, at least 38 Tibetans have resorted to self-immolation, setting themselves on fire in order to protest against the religious and cultural oppression they experience from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Twenty-nine have died as a result. Peaceful protests have been met with extreme violence from Chinese military forces. Most of the self-immolators…
LRF Participates in Tiananmen Anniversary Candlelight Memorial
The Laogai Research Foundation, along with the Wei Jingsheng Foundation, the Federation of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese DC, and the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, cosponsored a candle-lighting ceremony on Saturday at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC. The event anticipated the June 4th anniversary of the Chinese government’s massacre of…
International Conference on Laogai in Tibet. GENERAL PUBLIC WELCOME!
The Laogai Research Foundation is teaming up with the Lantos Foundation, the International Campaign for Tibet, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to host a conference on the China’s forced-labor prison camps in Tibet, focusing on the testimonies of Tibetan survivors of the Laogai. It will be an opportunity to expose the abuse of the…