If it weren’t so tragic, it could be the plot of its own reality TV show: A Chinese human rights group has 90 days and just $162,000 to transform the former MTV “Real World D.C.” house into its own headquarters and museum space.

Founded by Chinese dissident Harry Wu in 1992, the Laogai Research Foundation investigates human rights abuses surrounding China’s “Laogai,” Soviet-like forced-labor camps where as many as 50 million Chinese citizens have been imprisoned, tortured or killed.  (Read more from the Washington Business Journal)