Do people in China know about Chinese labor camps?

Yes, labour camps, or otherwise known as Labour Education Centres (Laogai camps) are widely known among Chinese population. Labour camps in China is not a state kept secret, rather it is commonly accepted that if you did something wrong, but not enough for prison, you will be sent to Labour Camps. read more

Chinese people accept this term just as they do with prison, or jail. In labour camps, you work long shifts, study politics and social behaviours, and get paid a token wage for the work you put in. At the end of your tenure, you get to go home a free man/woman. read more

In this persecution, the Chinese Communist Party uses the most perverse methods known to man: brainwashing, slave labor in forced labor camps, extreme torture such as beatings, electric battering, mass rape and deprivation of food, and the extraction of organs from living practitioners. read more

Human rights activist Harry Wu is driven by the conviction that China's Laogai, a system of forced-labor camps, must become as notorious as Stalin's Gulag. The world must know what it really is. It's not just a system of prisons and punishment for criminal deeds. read more