China's Concentration Camps

Established by Mao Zedong in the 1940s, China’s concentration camp system has committed 50 million people, intellectuals, workers, students, peasants, to a life of hell over the last eighty years, with 20 million deaths. Not dissimilar to the Soviet Gulag, this cruel system of oppression was intended to bring about a ‘thought reform’ in the prisoners. Survivors of the Laogai system, now living in exile, tell their story in this in depth documentary.

An investigation into the terrifying Chinese concentration camp system. This second episode reveals the state of total surveillance that is the reality for Chinese people in the 21st century.