The faces of prisoners Throughout the museum, photos and biographies of Laogai prisoners cover the walls.The displays give the name and fate of each prisoner, such as Sun Zhigang, who was arrested ...

Inside, there are 48 profiles of Laogai victims covering the walls. The story of Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is there. His crime: incitement of subversion.

In Mao Zedong’s China, millions of innocent men, women, and children were torn from their homes and imprisoned in the Laogai system - a network of forced labor camps shrouded in secrecy. Here ...

Harry Wu, the famous Chinese dissident and naturalized American citizen, opened the Laogai Museum in downtown Washington this week, calling it “the first museum in the U.S. to address human ...

The Laogai Museum is located in Washington D.C., but Wu hopes someday to relocate it to China. "One thing is very, very simple: No one in China believes communism is their future," he says.

Laogai is distinguished from laojiao , the more traditional Chinese labor camp system, in that the former is a prison used to detain individuals convicted under the Chinese Criminal Code, ...

The Laogai Museum is located in Washington D.C., but Wu hopes someday to relocate it to China. "One thing is very, very simple: No one in China believes communism is their future," he says.

Laogai camps Kate Laycock 01/15/2013 January 15, 2013. Harry Wu, an activist who spent 19 years in a Chinese prison labor camp, tells DW his personal experience there and why he thinks Beijing's ...

WASHINGTON - Chinese and Tibetan human rights advocates are teaming up in Washington this week to raise awareness of the Chinese forced-labor prison camp system, known as laogai, and its use in ...

The Laogai foundation estimates that 40million to 50m people have been imprisoned in the laogai system since the 1950s. Over the last 30 years, the government has modernised many prisons, ...