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Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2255 The Congressional-Executive Commission on China held another in its series of staff-led Issues Roundtables, entitled "Forced Labor in China" on Wednesday, June 22, from 10:00 Am to 11:30 AM in Room 2255 of the Rayburn House Office Building. This roundtable examined China's use of forced labor in profit-making prisons. From recent reports, the Chinese government's use of forced labor persists. The Commission is concerned that prison labor products are entering United States' markets, even though the U.S. and China have signed two agreements, in 1992 and 1994, to bar exports of prison products to the U.S. and to allow for inspections of forced labor facilities. The U.S. has received little cooperation in implementing these agreements. The panelists: Harry Wu, founder and executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation (LRF). Mr. Wu has documented the use of forced labor in China since 1992. The LRF publishes an annual Laogai Handbook, newsletters, special investigative reports and assists television media in preparing documentary films on the Laogai system. The LRF has expanded its focus to report on other human rights issues including organ harvesting and the persecution of religious believers. Jeff Fiedler, president of the Food and Allied Service Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. Mr. Fiedler is a co-founder of the LRF. When Harry Wu was detained in 1995, Mr. Fiedler coordinated the public campaign to win his release. Mr. Fiedler is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He attended three of the American Assembly conferences on China sponsored by Columbia University and has been interviewed on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and CNBC regularly on China policy, international trade issues, human rights, and child labor. Gregory Xu, a Falun Dafa practitioner and researcher on the treatment of Falun Dafa practitioners in China. Mr. Xu has collected reports from all parts of China on the imprisonment of practitioners since 1999. He is a software engineer for a technology company. Written Statements: Transcript: Forced Labor in China (Text / PDF) |
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