Longtime Chinese human rights champion and former political prisoner Harry Wu, who advocated on behalf of those in brutal forced labour camps, has died at age 79, according to his research foundation.
Wu died on Tuesday morning while vacationing in Honduras with friends, the Laogai Research Foundation said in a statement. He founded the organization in 1992 to analyze and raise awareness about China’s “laogai” or forced labour detention centres, which began under Chinese leader Mao Zedong.