What is Harry Wu?
[[File:Harry Wu.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Wu during a press conference in [[Washington D.C.]], January 18, 2011]] {{Chinese|t=吳弘達|s=吴弘达|p=Wú Hóngdá}} '''Harry Wu''' (February 8, 1937 – April 26, 2016; {{lang-zh|吴弘达}}) was a [[Chinese people|Chinese]]-born [[Americans|American]] [[human rights]] activist. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps. He was born in [[Shanghai]]. He was a resident and citizen of the [[United States]]. In 1992, he founded the [[Laogai Research Foundation]]. Among Wu's supporters was the [[AFL-CIO]]. In 1990, Senators [[Alan Cranston]] (D-Calif.), and [[Jesse Helms]] (R-N.C.) invited Wu to testify before the Senate on the laogai. In November 2008, Wu opened the [[Laogai Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. He called it the first ever United States museum to talk about human rights in China. Wu died from a [[heart attack]] while on a trip in [[Tegucigalpa]], [[Honduras]] on April 26, 2016, aged 79.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/world/asia/harry-wu-who-told-world-of-abuses-in-china-dies-at-79.html|title=Harry Wu, Who Told World of Abuses in China, Dies at 79|publisher=[[New York Times]]|access-date=April 28, 2016|date=April 27, 2016|author=Sam Roberts}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of Chinese dissidents]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category-inline}} *[http://laogai.org The Laogai Research Foundation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040926114749/http://laogai.org/ |date=2004-09-26 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Harry}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:American human rights activists]] [[Category:People from Shanghai]] {{US-bio-stub}}