Mr. Wu settled in the United States in 1985 after a ghastly odyssey in the Chinese prison system in which he withered to 80 pounds, was worked nearly to death and survived, in part, on food that he foraged in rats’ nests. He endured solitary confinement and suffered a broken back when a runaway cart struck him in a coal mine. When his captors discovered that he had hidden Western books, including Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables,” they broke his arm. He once attempted suicide by refusing to consume the meager provisions the prisoners received. After his release in 1979, three years after the death of Communist leader Mao Zedong, he built a profile as a human rights activist and self-described “troublemaker” who repeatedly slipped back into China to gather undercover footage of the prison camps. Mr. Wu helped draw widespread attention to Chinese practices of using forced labor to produce exports. He was at times compared to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer who documented the atrocities of the Soviet gulag. Mr. Wu described the laogai prisons, which purported to deliver “reform through labor,” as the Chinese gulag and said he would not rest until the word laogai appeared in “every language dictionary in the world.” He testified before Congress, lectured on university campuses, wrote books and established the Laogai Research Foundation and Laogai Museum, both based in Washington, to educate the public about the Chinese labor camps. “Millions of people in China today are experiencing my experience. If I don’t say something for them, who will?” – Harry Wu ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZNyy0HoMKU

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