Meet Harry Wu, Founder of the Laogai Center, and tour the Museum he directs FREE

Our tour guide will be Cole Goodrich, Esq.

Established by the Laogai Research Foundation in 2008, the mission of the Laogai Museum to document and expose the Laogai, China’s vast and brutal system of forced-labor prison camps.  Opened to the public in April 2011, our newly redesigned museum in the Dupont Circle area serves as a space for education, advocacy, and dialogue about human rights in China. Furthermore, it preserves the memory of the Laogai’s victims and raises awareness about the ongoing abuses of the Chinese Communist Party against its own people.

The museum style is bold, modern and engaging; it includes video interviews, short documentaries, Communist Party documents and prison artifacts. With free entry, self-guided tours, and bilingual signage, it is an ideal museum for visitors from the US and abroad who are interested in DC’s role in international advocacy, as well as DC residents seeking to hear an alternative voice about China.

 

Harry Wu

Harry Wu
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  • Harry Wu is an activist for human rights in the People's Republic of China. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, and is now a resident and citizen of the United States. In 1992, he founded the Laogai Research Foundation.
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Timeline

1990: In 1990, Senators Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), and Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) invited Wu to testify before the Senate on the laogai.
1991: Wu received the Freedom Award from the Hungarian Freedom Fighters' Federation in 1991.
1992: In 1992, Wu established the Laogai Research Foundation, a non-profit research and public education organization, considered a leading source for information on China's labor camps; and was instrumental in proving that organs of executed criminals were used for organ transplants.
1995: He was awarded the Courage of Conscience Award by the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on September 14, 1995 for his extraordinary sacrifices and commitment to exposing human rights violations in his motherland China.
1996: In 1996, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom from the Dutch World War II Resistance Foundation.
2007: In 2007, Wu criticized the selection of a Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, as the lead sculptor for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial based on the fact that Lei had also carved statues celebrating Mao Zedong.
2008: In November 2008, Wu opened the Laogai Museum in Washington, D.C., calling it the first ever United States museum to directly address human rights in China.

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