“Gao Zhisheng is known as the conscience of China, as Russian dissidents were in the Soviet era,” McMillan Scott said.

Jin told The Epoch Times that as a result of his fully legal efforts for Falun Gong practitioners,  Gao Zhisheng, an internationally well-known human rights lawyer, had been disbarred, detained and tortured by the secret police and remains missing since

Those who publicly defend Falun Gong in China face harsh repercussions, and lawyers attempting to represent Falun Gong practitioners have met with harassment, detention, and even torture, in the case of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been held

In Ms Zhang's opinion, Gao Zhisheng deserves the courageous advocacy award. She pointed out that Gao Zhisheng has won tremendous support from people because he is righteous and is not afraid of facing the Chinese communist regime.

Example three is from a letter by the courageous human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. In the letter, Mr. Gao noted what a torturer shouted at him while torturing him, “Didn’t you [curse word deleted] say the CCP uses torture?

Li described the story of lawyer Gao Zhisheng who was the first high profile lawyer to publicly speak out against the persecution of Falun Gong, as an example of the regime’s cruelty.

Hu was thus put on the authority's watch list because of his many efforts to support other activists, including the "Conscience of China," human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng.

The names of the attorneys include some well-known human rights lawyers: Jiang Tianyong, Li Xiongbing, Li Heping, and Mo Shaoping, with three or four police officers stationed around their homes.Prominent human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng was also incarcerated

Lawyer Gao Zhisheng at his hometown in northern Shaanxi Province at the beginning of 2006.

His comments focused on various issues in China including missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng, environmental pollution, the economy, killing of Falun Gong for organ transplants,  and suggestions on doing trade with China.About Missing Chinese Lawyer Gao

Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer and defender of Falun Gong, and permit both to reunite with their families.

Award-winning human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was released by authorities from the ruling Chinese communist regime Feb. 3 after his disappearance two weeks ago.

One is Gao Zhisheng, a twice Nobel Peace Prize-nominated lawyer. A decade ago, he was named one of China's top 10 lawyers. Party wrath was released, however, when Gao defended Falun Gong practitioners.

Book cover: China's Hope by Gao Zhisheng. My life and struggles as an attorney in the largest communist state.

One such person is human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng. He is renowned for standing up for the likes of the poor, AIDS victims of bad blood, petitioners and Falun Gong.

She said those vague laws have no real definition, a catch-all crime the regime uses to attack its targets, such as prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and recent Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Being a former attorney, at the moment of congratulating those who quit the CCP, I also want to express my strong condemnation of the CCP’s brutal torture of attorney Gao Zhisheng.

This prompted the Beijing Public Security Bureau to immediately intervene, and urged Gao Zhisheng not to publish his article."

Lawyers who attempt to defend Falun Gong practitioners face harsher retribution, such as in the case of Gao Zhisheng, who was kidnapped and tortured for 50 days in 2007, and who is currently being held incommunicado by the authorities.

Former Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour pointed to the torture of human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gao Zhisheng. Mr. Gao was tortured for more than 50 days in 2007 after writing an open letter to the U.S.

Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who is a Christian, and HIV and environmental activist Hu Jia were both considered among the favourites to win the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

Many have been fired from their law firms, and in some cases, notably that of Nobel Prize nominee Gao Zhisheng, their law practices have been closed and they have been put into detention and tortured. In a short interview, Mr.

Congress Gao Zhisheng was arrested and has not been heard from since.

Among the most prominent was Gao Zhisheng, a combative Beijing lawyer who relished contentious causes, including representing members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual practice who said they had been tortured.

Hu Jia, Beijing-based AIDS activist, received a phone call from Gao Zhisheng, China's most prominent human rights lawyer, at approximately 9:30 p.m. on October 28.

Zhang Xuerong, spokesman of Association to Support Gao Zhisheng recently urged people to pay close attention to the situation of Gao and his family.

Chinese human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng was seized by Beijing's secret police after publishing an open letter to the U.S. Congress pointing out the Chinese regime's increasing human rights abuses.

Beijing human rights activist Hu Jia, who has dedicated himself to rescuing Gao Zhisheng, was interviewed by The Epoch Times on January 5, 2007. He confirmed that Gao is currently in North Shaanxi.

BEIJING—Prominent Chinese human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng has been seized by CCP security forces and may be back in prison.

FDAC is also seeking the release of all supporters and defenders of Falun Gong, in particular renowned lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gao Zhisheng, whose cause was recently championed by Liberal MP Irwin Cotler.Mr.