May 2016

Temporary Museum Closure

The Laogai Museum will be temporarily closed from tomorrow Wednesday, May 25, 2016 through Memorial Day. The Museum will resume normal hours on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 10am to 6pm. The Laogai Museum would like to apologize for any inconvenience and looks forward to guests visiting in the future. 

Chinese Civil Rights Activist Harry Wu

The well-known Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu has died at the age of 79 years. He revealed torture and flagrant abuses in China's labor camps.

He devoted most of his life to the victims of Chinese governance: Now the dissident and human rights activist Harry Wu has died at the age of 79 years.

The dissident Wu had founded in 1992, the Laogai Research Foundation. He tirelessly denounced the desolate conditions in the same labor camps that have been set already under revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.