Laogai Museum founder Harry Wu welcomed a group of 12 young professional interns from the Institute of World Politics to the Laogai Museum today, giving a tour sprinkled with personal experiences from his 19 years imprisoned in the Laogai and his 30 years of advocacy. The group had arrived to gift Harry the diploma for the honorary degree…
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Laogai Museum to be closed Wednesday, July 4th, for Independence Day
At the Laogai Research Freedom, we are grateful for this great country that has provided a refuge to so many Chinese lovers of freedom. America’s personal and civil liberty and sense of justice allows us to do our important work, and more importantly, to live our lives in freedom of occupation and freedom of conscience,…
LRF presents flowers at the Victims of Communism Memorial to recall past and present victims of PRC
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…
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…
Windward School students tour Laogai Museum and meet Harry Wu
Laogai Museum founder and executive director Harry Wu spoke with 10 ninth-grade students from New York States’ Windward School. To celebrating their final year at the school, their history teacher Jason Steiker took them on a two-day trip to DC, with the highlights of sitting in on a Supreme Court case and hearing Harry share…
AU foreign-exchange students tour Laogai Museum
Laogai Museum founder and director Harry Wu spoke on Thursday to students enrolled in American University’s Washington Semester program, giving his life story and an overview of the appalling human rights situation in China, before they received a tour of the Museum. Some of the student’s home universities were American, but most were European. For Washington…
Harry Wu speaks to Emerson Prep students on human rights
Laogai Research Foundation founder and executive director Harry Wu and shared his story with 7 students of Emerson Preparatory School, after they received a tour of the Laogai Museum. The high school students were enrolled in an honors seminar entitled “International Human Rights: History, Ideas, and Practices”. The visit was designed as part of their midterm…