(http://youtu.be/ytFOlFxk-yg)
Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng may be dead. A rumor of his death originated on the Twitter account of someone calling themself GuaDai. It is the worst fear of an international community of supporters, who have backed Gao Zhisheng since he disappeared in 2010, following abuse and torture at the hands of China’s own government.
Gao, once known as the “conscience of Chinese lawyers,” was convicted of the blanket charge “subversion” in 2006. He was sent to jail for three years and put on probation for five.
Since then he has been abducted again and again by Chinese authorities. In an interview with the Associated Press, Gao discussed the repeated torture he suffered in prison. The AP agreed to keep the interview confidential unless he went missing again. On April 6th, 2010, Gao vanished and the interview was made public.
Gao was a lawyer for those who had no one to defend them, usually people who found themselves on the wrong end of the Chinese regime’s wrath. He defended persecuted minority groups like house Christians and people who lost their land to forced seizure by government officials.
In recent years, China has become known for two things – booming economic growth and harsh oppression of dissidents. But Gao’s case differs from other high profile dissidents. Another jailed lawyer Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize and has been allowed to communicate with family and friends. Gao Zhisheng has not been so lucky.
One important difference is Gao Zhisheng’s defense of practitioners of the Falun Gong meditation practice, which the Chinese regime has persecuted since 1999. Another is the Tuidang movement. Tuidang is a term for “quitting the Chinese Communist Party”, where participants renounce their membership and allegiance to the Chinese Communist party. The Tuidang movement began in 2004. Since then, over 100 million people have quit the party. Gao Zhisheng quit in 2005.
Gao’s wife Geng He and their two children currently live in the United States. They fled to the US in 2009 to escape harassment.
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Let’s find “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”(VCD, books)!
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快上大纪元声明退出共产党和共产党其它组织(/团/队)，抹去邪恶的印记!
Quit the Chinese Communist Party or its affiliated organizations today!
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