December 16th, 2011
Chinese
state media reported on Friday that human rights lawyer
Gao Zhisheng will be sent to prison for three years for violating his probation rules. In 2006 Gao was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for “subversion of state power”, being given five years of probation. In 2009 he was taken from a relative’s home in Shaanxi province, northern
China, resurfacing briefly in March 2010 and alleging he had been tortured. He disappeared again soon after.
March 24th, 2011
The 11th annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards, sponsored by SAGE, were presented tonight (24 March) at a ceremony in London hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby
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March 24th, 2011
Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng was named the winner of the Bindmans Law and Campaigning Award at tonight’s Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression awards, sponsored by SAGE.
Gao Zhisheng was unable to attend and his wife, Geng He, accepted the award on his behalf, via video. (more…)
May 5th, 2010
The
dissident human rights lawyer — missing for over a year until he resurfaced last month — has been reported missing again by his family. In early April, Gao gave a series of interviews to the western media publicly renouncing activism. He boarded the Beijing-bound flight from Urumqi on 20 April but his whereabouts are now unknown. Critics speculate that his reappearance was “a ploy to try to demonstrate to the outside world that he had not been mistreated”.
April 8th, 2010
The prominent Chinese human rights lawyer and activist
Gao Zhisheng, who had been missing for over a year, gave his first interview to the Associated Press yesterday.
During the interview, Gao refused to discuss the suspicious circumstances surrounding his disappearance and reappearance, or comment on his treatment by Chinese authorities. Gao has previously written an open letter detailing
graphic accounts of torture whilst under arrest in China, as well the treatment of his wife and children whom he claims had been
starved whilst under captivity. The abandoning of his political activism now, says Gao, is due to concern for his family, currently residing in the US, whom he hopes to be reunited with one day.
March 17th, 2010
Lawyer
Gao Zhisheng has been charged with
subverting state power, Chinese Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi made the annoucement during a news conference with David Miliband on Tuesday. Gao, noted for taking on high-profile cases against the Chinese government,
has been missing for over a year.
February 22nd, 2010
Geng He, the wife of
Gao Zhisheng, a prominent Chinese dissident who disappeared in February 2009, said late Wednesday that she had not heard from her husband even though Chinese officials had told a human rights group recently that Gao had been in touch with her. Mrs Geng made her comments in a written statement after the Dui Hua Foundation said last weekend that the Chinese Embassy in Washington had told the group that Gao was working in the Xinjiang region and that he had been in touch with her.
