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

Victims of the system of forced labor camps in China are now demanding compensation for the abuses they suffered when the system was up and running.

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.

The May 1 screening of two independent documentaries in both Hong Kong and Taiwan has made the hot topic of the re-education through labor [RTL] system in China even hotter. Inside China, the recent attention paid to the RTL system prior to these releases had already put certain elements in the regime into a bind in which they could not admit what they had done but felt compelled to defend it.

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.

The recent exposé of Masanjia labor camp published in mainland China left out essential information: the identity of victims, or the purpose of the torture and brainwashing they were subject to, or the sinister and crucial role of the camp in carrying out the most sweeping campaign of persecution orchestrated in contemporary Chinese history.

A new documentary reveals the torture experienced by Chinese women detained at Masanjia labor camp.

It was the unlikeliest of letters uncovered by an Oregon woman in October that on Christmas Eve began a national conversation about abusive labor practices in China, and the horrors that lie behind them.

A letter from a Chinese labor camp smuggled into a Halloween kit has sparked a national discussion about human rights abuses in China, and the dark side of the U.S.-China relationship.