The Laogai Museum in Dupont Circle explores the history of China’s prison system for government opponents.

Harry Wu, a human rights activist who spent nearly two decades imprisoned in China, has opened a museum in Dupont Circle to bring attention to human rights abuses.

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 ...

Originally published July 14, 2015. Original text below: "In China, they want you to become new socialist person, and that's the purpose of the labor ...

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, whereas ...

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 ...

"In China, they want you to become [a] new socialist person, and that's the purpose of the labor camps," says Harry Wu, a survivor of the prison system known as "Laogai," which means "reform ...

Laogai camps Kate Laycock01/15/2013 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 indication of a ...

The laogai system is lesser known, but it’s a widely used form of repression, according to Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in a Chinese prison camp and is now the director of the Washington-based ...

Chinese Human Rights Activist Raises Serious Questions About Bodies Exhibitions Activist Harry Wu says the U.S. government should launch an investigation.