Labour Market

Anybody buying goods made in China might want to consider that they are likely, at least in part, to have a connection to a system of prisons that grossly abuse human rights. The Laogai (the word translates from Mandarin into “reform through labour”) system has more than 1,000 forced-labour camps scattered throughout the country. An estimated 5.5 million people are held in these prisons where they are forced to work, sometimes making consumer goods that end up in the export market.

China’s Systematic Crushing of Dissent

Political prisoners, religious observers, homosexuals, and dissidents are housed alongside dangerous criminals. In a 2001 article for CNN, former labour-camp prisoner Harry Wu says the system “is designed as a repressive mechanism to control and, in effect, eliminate anyone whose political, religious, or societal views differ from those of the Communist Party.”

In 1992, Wu founded the Laogai Research Foundation after he managed to get out of China and settle in the United States. The foundation’s website notes that, “In 1960, Wu was imprisoned at the age of 23 for criticizing the Communist Party, and subsequently spent 19 years toiling in the factories, mines, and fields of the Laogai.”

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