Labor Camp

In undercover footage shot inside China’s notorious Masanjia labor camp, prisoners are shown hunched over work tables, with piles of wire diodes—an electronic component—on either side of a rubber mat.

In an exclusive interview, human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk shows scars that he suffered from torture inside a North Korean prison camp.

A doctor who witnessed the genocide of the Cambodian people tells his story to Epoch Times.

Banned from writing to loved ones, and only allowed letters from family members twice a year, prisoners in Soviet labor camps came up with many ways to squirrel out messages. With no pencils, papers or envelopes, they were forced to write on cigarette boxes, scratch out words on tree bark, or embroider messages with fish bone on tissues.

“Vaginal Coma,” book by photojournalist Du Bin, was published, revealing the brutal sex torture to female inmates in Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp

Seeking justice in China requires being willing to pit weak flesh and blood against the steel of oppression. Four human rights lawyers who took that risk at a remote spot in the far north of China have focused the nation’s attention on the secret, extra-legal hellholes used to terrorize the faithful, the dissident, and the unlucky in China.

A group of human rights lawyers stated skepticism about China’s abolishment of re-education through labor.

Two reports that came out in early April this year have once again exposed the darkness of China’s legal system, which heedlessly takes away people’s lives and has no limits in how it debases human dignity.

Masanjia Labor Camp victims protested a government report denying torture in the camp, while the May issue of Lens magazine was delayed after it published a report about abuses in Masanjia.

A group of female Masanjia torture victims have confronted Xinhua, the official Chinese mouthpiece, over its publication of a torture denial report issued by Liaoning officials.

A documentary about the extraordinary torture and abuse meted out at the Chinese labor camp Masanjia, in Liaoning Province, has been published.

Ma Chunmei, a resident of the Washington metro area, is trying by every means to rescue from the Masanjia labor camp her sister, Ma Chunling, who has been there since August 2012. She fears the worst.

Sometimes practitioners of Falun Gong would disappear from Masanjia Women’s Forced Labor Camp without a trace. Their clothes and other belongings would remain behind, but the practitioners could not be found. One inmate only fully understood what those disappearances meant after she had been released from the labor camp.