Yahoo (YHOO) squandered millions to fund a Chinese human rights organization that failed to channel the money to dissidents in China. Instead, the group used the funds for itself and its founder, ...

The dissident spent 19 years in a "re-education through labor camp". Released, he fled to the United States from where he began a decades-long battle against the laogai system. Thanks also to his ...

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Now the hated laogai labour camps, where transgressors and dissidents are incarcerated for months of "reform through labour", will provide the first big test for the reforming intentions of the new ...

"In China, they want you to become [a] new socialist person, and that's the purpose of the labor camps," says Harry Wu, a survivor of the prison system known as "Laogai," which means "reform through ...

This is the seventh in a series of weekly guides to museums you might not have discovered. At the entrance of the Laogai Museum in Dupont Circle, a small display introduces the Laogai prison system of ...