Press Releases

Harry Wu to keynote "Combating Illegal Traffic in Human Organs and Tissues " at UC Berkeley

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Wed, 05/05/2010

May 4, 2010, Washington, DC- On Thursday May 6 Laogai Research Foundation Executive Director Harry Wu will be offering the keynote address for "Combating Illegal Traffic in Human Organs and Tissues," a two-day conference at the University of California- Berkeley. The conference is being sponsored by UC Berkeley's doctoral program in medical anthropology and Organs Watch, a university-affiliated medical human rights and documentation project concerned with illegal global traffic in organs and tissues.

Laogai Research Foundation Launches Twitter Campaign to Free Liu Xiaobo

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Fri, 12/04/2009

Washington, DC, December 4, 2009- The Laogai Research Foundation has launched a Twitter campaign to free noted scholar and human rights advocate to Liu Xiaobo. Liu was one of the primary authors of Charter '08, a peaceful online manifesto calling for practical democratic reform in China with over 10,000 signatories. To mark the one-year anniversary of Liu's detention and the release of Charter '08, LRF has launched a ten day Twitter campaign calling on advocates around the world to follow @freeliuxiaobo and re-tweet quotes from Charter '08, in both English and Mandarin.

Laogai Research Foundation Calls on EU to Suspend Preferential Trade Access for China Under the GSP

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Tue, 12/01/2009

Bredenbeck, Germany, December 1, 2009- The Laogai Research Foundation (LRF), in association with the International Society for Human Rights (Frankfurt), formally call on the European Commission to suspend the People's Republic of China's non-reciprocal preferential access to the EU market provided under the GSP scheme until China stops exporting products to the EU made in the Laogai, China's vast system of forced labor prison camps.

Trentino South-Tyrol Regional Council passes Resolution Condemning China's Laogai

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Wed, 11/18/2009

Washington DC, November 18, 2009- In a boldly worded resolution, the Trentino South Tyrol Regional Council condemned China's Laogai.  Literally translated, "Laogai: a reality that in order to be defeated must be renounced," the council offered support for the resolution in the attached document. 

Should your local government be interested in passing a resolution condemning China's brutal system of forced labor camps, the Laogai, please contact us at (202) 408-8300 or laogai@laogai.org. 

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