Harry Wu

Date(s) of Arrest:
April 28, 1960; June 19, 1995
Prison Terms:
Life (Served 19 years), 15 years (Served 66 days)
Charges:
Counterrevolutionary Rightist, stealing state secrets
Crime:
“Spreading poison” during the Hundred Flowers Campaign, investigating China's Laogai system.

Harry Wu spent nineteen years in the Laogai, including 11 days inside a solitary confinement cell six feet long, three feet wide, and three feet high. He described, "For the first three days I had no food, no water and no human contact. There was no toilet, so I could turn to no one else for help but myself."

After his release from the Laogai, Wu founded the Laogai Research Foundation in 1992. In 1995, Wu was re-arrested during an undercover research trip and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

【E-Book】BITTER WINDS(English)

【E-Book】TROUBLE MAKER(English)

【E-Book】QINCHENG PRISON(Chinese)

【E-Book】REEDUCATION THROUGH LABOR AND FORCED JOB PLACEMENT(Chinese)

【E-Book】THUNDERSTORM IN THE NIGHT(Chinese)

【Video】Reviewing Laogai by Harry Wu