Speech Harry Wu on Oslo Freedom Forum (With video)

[Peter Terpstra]

Harry Wu | Harry Wu spent 19 years incarcerated by the Chinese government in
the Laogai — the “Bamboo Gulag”— as a political prisoner. Wu was forced to
manufacture chemicals, mine coal, build roads, and plant crops. He survived
beatings, torture, and starvation, and witnessed the death of many of his
fellow prisoners. After his release in 1979, Wu moved to the United States
determined to expose the truth about the Laogai - the most extensive forced
labor system in the world. He documented his imprisonment and survival in his
book Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China’s Gulag. He has repeatedly
risked his life returning to China to document slavery and human rights
abuses. In 1995, Wu was arrested in China, found guilty of “stealing state
secrets,” sentenced to 15 years in prison, and was then expelled. Since his
release, Wu courageously vowed to continue to expose human rights violations
in China. In November 2008, Wu opened the Laogai Museum in Washington DC, the
first museum in the world to exclusively deal with human rights in China.

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