On Wednesday, January 18th, the Laogai Research Foundation will host a press conference at The National Press Club for Chinese dissident writer Yu Jie. The press conference will give Yu a chance to address the media with his story of imprisonment and torture, his family’s life under year-long house arrest and 24-hour surveillance, and their…
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October News
Hello everybody! October has been a busy month, and we at the Laogai Museum are happy to say that we have been visited by several student groups this fall. The tour groups, which have ranged from high school freshman to Annapolis Naval Academy language students, came to our new Dupont Circle location to gain a…
October Film Series
2pm Saturday, 10/08 & 10/22 BBC: Prisoner Organ Donors (43 min.) This BBC investigative report uncovers China’s lucrative scheme of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers the dark secrets of China’s organ transplant business. (Contains disturbing images and footage) 60 Minutes: Made in China (15 min.) Ed Bradley travels to China to expose…
Laogai Museum Film Series: September 2011
The Laogai Museum will be continuing with its film series in the month of September. We will be showing documentaries that show the human devastation caused by Mao and his communist regime. As always, this is open to the general public and is free of charge. In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul September 10th,…
Laogai Museum Film Series: August 2011
For the month of August the Laogai Museum will be hosting its first ever film series. Starting August 10, the museum will be showing a different documentary every Wednesday for the rest of the month, detailing a different area of human rights in China. The films will be playing all day long in the museum’s…
Upcoming Event - Film Screening of The Blue Kite
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Laogai Museum and Knowledge Commons Team Up to Host Laogai Class
June 18th, 2011 – The Laogai Museum and Knowledge Commons DC teamed up to host an “Introduction to the Laogai: China’s Forced Labor Prisons” class at the museum this past Saturday. Knowledge Commons DC is a free school based on the idea of learning outside the classroom. It is a collaborative project of local artists…
Free Course: Intro to the Laogai
Saturday, June 18th, 11am – 1:30 pm Knowledge Commons DC is a free school based on the idea of learning outside the classroom. It is a collaborative project of local artists and organizations which takes advantage of the fact that everyone is an expert in something, and that we can all learn from each other….
In Memory of Tiananmen: Yu Zhijian & Rep. Chris Smith Speak at Laogai Museum
On June 3rd, the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident, Laogai Research Foundation hosted Tiananmen hero Yu Zhijian and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) at the Laogai Museum. Amidst the tumultuous 1989 democracy movement, Mr. Yu, along with two others, filled eggs with ink and threw them at Mao Zedong’s massive portrait…
Upcoming Event: In Memory of Tiananmen
For those involved in the battle for human rights in China, the images of June 4th, 1989 remain vivid and heartbraking- the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Yet with China’s booming economy and rising global standing, the call for human rights in China often gets muffled as it is increasingly overshadowed by issues deemed strategically ‘more important’…