Harry Wu was sent to a Chinese labor camp in 1960 and left there for nearly two decades. After he was released, he came to the United States.
He soon returned to China to document the brutality of the prison camps. On his fifth trip, he was caught and jailed. Activists and politicians from around the world called for his freedom and Wu was eventually released.
Wu’s dream now is to raise awareness of the Chinese prison system so that it becomes as condemned for its abuses as the gulags of the USSR, or the concentration camps of the World War II.
Guests:
Harry Wu, Executive Director of the Laogai Research Foundation, based in Washington, DC. He is the author of three books, including: “Laogai: The Chinese Gulag,” “Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China’s Gulag” and “Troublemaker: One Man’s Crusade Against China’s Cruelty.”