by chance, surfed on this site:
http://www.laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=1868
Surprised with all these support, they don't have a bilingual presentation.
What is the Laogai Research Foundation?
In 1992, the Laogai Research Foundation was established to gather information and spread public awareness on the Chinese Laogai. The Foundation publishes an annual Laogai Handbook, newsletters, special investigative reports, as well as assisting television media in preparing documentary films on the Laogai. Since its inception, the LRF has expanded its focus to document and report on other systemic human rights violations in China, including public executions, organ harvesting from executed prisoners, the coercive enforcement of China's population control policy, and persecution of religious believers.
History of the Laogai Research Foundation
2003-- After many years of efforts on the part of LRF founder and Executive Director Harry Wu, the word Laogai was recognized by the international community and placed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
2002-- Wu was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Ms. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, the co-founder of Peace People, an organization devoted to ending political and domestic violence.
2001-- LRF assisted Dr. Wang Guoqi of the Tianjin Military Hospital in coming to testify in front of the U.S. Congress, where he revealed the dark truth behind the organ harvesting trade in China's judicial, criminal and medical systems. Following the hearing, Congress passed legislation restricting Chinese doctors involved in organ harvesting from coming to the U.S.
2001-- After an investigation into Laogai products, LRF assisted the U.S. Customs Service in preventing Laogai products from reaching the United States.
1998-- LRF invited former Fujian Province family planning official Gao Xiaoduan to testify in front of the U.S. Congress, verifying China's violent enforcement of the one-child policy and the cruelties toward women and children resulting from the policy. Ms. Gao's testimony is often referred to by American judges ruling on cases involving applications for asylum due to persecution because of the one-child policy.
1995-- Harry Wu legally traveled to China, and was detained by Chinese government officials upon arrival at a border crossing in Xinjiang Province. Wu was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of espionage. Due to intense pressure on the part of the U.S. and human rights organizations, Wu was released after 66 days and returned to the United States.
1992-- Harry Wu founded the Laogai Research Foundation.
1991- Harry Wu participated in the making of a 60 Minutes program entitled "Made in China" on the export of Laogai products from China. Reaction to the broadcast of the program was strong, and it earned an Emmy Award that year.
Introduction to LRF founder Harry Wu
Harry Wu is the founder of the Laogai Research Foundation. He has been at the front of the fight for human rights in China for many years, during which he has revealed the tyranny of the CCP government and called for an end to the Laogai system, which arbitrarily strips Chinese citizens of their freedom.
Wu was imprisoned at the age of 23 for being a Rightist and subsequently spent 19 years behind the iron bars of the Laogai. Since that time, he has traveled back to China multiple times to visit Laogai camps in order to gather information and continue his call for human rights.
Wu continues to gather materials on the Laogai, Laogai products in the U.S. and the trade in the organs of executed Chinese prisoners, and uses these materials as evidence to urge the international community to push for the end of the dictatorial government in China.
In her letter nominating Wu for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Mairead Corrigan Maguire wrote that Wu had tirelessly persisted in revealing the tyranny of China's Laogai system to the world for many years, and had put all his strength into striving for human rights and dignity. She wrote that his voice had encouraged victims, advocates and supporters in China and elsewhere to gather up their courage to fight for human rights.
Wu is the executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation. He has also written many books about the Laogai, including the English-language books: Laogai- The Chinese Gulag(1992), Bitter Winds-A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag(1994), and Troublemaker-One Man's Crusade against China's Cruelty (1996).
Contact information for the Laogai Research Foundation:
Laogai Research Foundation
1925 K Street Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20006
Tel: (202) 833-8770
Fax: (202) 833-6187
E-Mail: laogai@laogai.org
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