Harry Wu, who spent nineteen years in the laogai (literally, reeducation camps), had a lot to say at the opening of the Communion and Liberation Conference about the persecution that is going on in China still to this day. He estimates that there are 1000 labor camps where prisoners produce commodities.
CatholicOnline quotes from his address:
In this context, one of Sunday’s presenters, Harry Wu, who spent 19 years imprisoned in the Chinese labor camps known as “laogai,” denounced his homeland’s denial of religious liberty.
He lamented that there is no freedom of worship in China, and stated that “Catholicism is still illegal.”
Wu continued: “All the churches and temples are government property. There is a religion of the state, which is communism. I was Catholic, and for this reason I was persecuted.” Read full article here.
