Topic: Gao Zhisheng

China sends campaigning rights lawyer back to jail

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has sent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng back to jail, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday, ending his probation in what was the first official account of his whereabouts in the last year.Gao, however, appears never to ...

US urges China to free prominent rights lawyer

The United States on Wednesday renewed an appeal to China to free prominent rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has not heard from since last year, as Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Beijing.State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Biden ...

Family of missing China rights lawyer seeks news on whereabouts

BEIJING (Reuters) - The brother of missing Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has issued a plea for news about his whereabouts, and believes that he remains in extra-judicial detention despite recently ending a five-year probationary period.Gao is among China's most ...

Gao Zhisheng

Gao Zhisheng is a Chinese dissident who is reported to be at the top of the short list for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize . Chinese dissidents favourites for Nobel Peace Prize (October 6, 2008) An eminent lawyer in his home country, Gao ...

Free Gao Zhisheng

Lawyers hold their tongueGao Zhisheng* speaking outThe honesty he speaks from his mouthCorrupt judicial forces can?t standAnd want to rule outFrom Poetic Passages, in the True Words Poetry AnthologyAt the time of writing this, it's been 587 days since Gao ...

US lawmakers press Obama on Chinese dissidents

US President Barack Obama should press China to release two prominent Chinese dissidents, one of whom is a favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize, 30 US lawmakers urged in letters released Wednesday.Obama should raise the cases of writer Liu Xiaobo ...
Christian human rights activist Gao Zhisheng, kidnapped by state security agents on Feb. 4, 2009, has been released, though he appears unable to move or speak freely.. On Tuesday (April 6) Gao told Bob Fu, president of the U.S.-based China ...
A Christian human rights organization is reporting that missing human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng has been confirmed to be " ChinaAid, which monitors persecution of Christians in China, said that Gao Zhisheng spoke to his wife and children on Sunday, March 28, for ...

Britain presses China on well-known missing dissident

BEIJING (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Tuesday he had pressed China about the whereabouts of one of the country's best known activist lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, as confusion remained about his fate.Miliband later told reporters he had been ...
Missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng sentenced on subversion charges, foreign minister says China's foreign minister added to the mystery surrounding missing lawyer Gao Zhisheng on Tuesday, saying he had been sentenced on subversion charges but offering no details on his present ...