Gao Zhisheng has been a devoted human rights activist. In October 2005, he issued open letters to top leaders of the Chinese Communist regime, asking them to end the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners.

"Right now, the government's number one enemy is the rights defence movement, and Gao Zhisheng has been one of its leading figures," Hu Jia, a Beijing-based dissident who knows Gao, told Reuters.

Gao Zhisheng represents the poor people and as such he usually does not charge them for his services. Gao Zhisheng stated: "The CCP can suppress anyone's voice.

all the more disconcerting to learn that their lives are at risk; In protest, Gao Zhisheng and other human rights attorneys in China have initiated a relay "hunger strike" campaign.

Escapees in 2009 also include the wife and children of Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer who published an account of 50 days of tortured and whose current whereabouts are unknown after being seized by the regime.

Evidence the authorities used for prosecution is based on 63 articles Li Hong wrote, mainly including articles that support Gao Zhisheng and Falun Gong practitioners who suffered from live organ harvesting.

Gao Zhisheng, a Christian attorney and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, suffered extensive torture in 2007 after writing three open letters urging an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.

He particularly noted recent reports that well-known lawyer Gao Zhisheng is suffering torture in Chinese custody. Mr. Gao has strongly and publicly spoken out on behalf of many oppressed groups in China.   

Gao Zhisheng, included a chapter specifically on the movement of people quitting the party.

She also pointed out that before Guo's arrest; he was actively involved in the release of arrested Beijing rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, and that the authorities created a charge to stop her husband's efforts.

Jia, former General Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Association of Scientists and Technology Experts, who defected from China while on a vacation tour and then publicly declared that he quit the CCP; Gao Zhisheng, renowned human rights lawyer recently

These cases range from renowned human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, AIDS activist Hu Jia, more than 8,000 Falun Gong practitioners, migrant workers trying to petition for their rights, out of town college students and foreigners who were either working

The Chinese-language Epoch Times wrote that “from Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jia, the 8000 Falun Gong practitioners arrested before the Olympics, to migrant workers, petitioners, university students from outside Beijing to foreigners studying and working in China

Lin Mu, secretary to former Chinese President Hu Yaobang, signed a letter condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents' attacks on Beijing human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng.

Conscience Drives People like Gao Zhisheng to Break the Silence Gao Zhisheng said that he has experienced over 30 years of extreme hardship in his life, and this experience has made him sympathise with the weak, respect the elderly, and hold to his

At 10 p.m. on July 30, Gao Zhisheng, the well-known human rights attorney in China, was beaten in front of his residence by three plainclothes agents who had been monitoring him.

The majority of the articles were focused on illegal organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and supporting the relay hunger strikes for human rights initiated by attorney Gao Zhisheng.

Gao Zhisheng at his childhood home in 2007, prior to his arrest and torture.

They also called for support for lawyer Gao Zhisheng and congratulated the 26 million brave people who had broken away from the Party.

Guo Guoting is an attorney that was persecuted by the Chinese authority, and Gao Zhisheng is an attorney under persecution."

“Unfrocked Beijing lawyer Gao Zhisheng was convicted of ‘inciting subversion.’ Former Shanghai lawyer Zheng Enchong served three years for ‘selling abroad state secrets,’” said Cohen.

The Asia Delegation will also request to visit renowned human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, who was recently arrested by the CCP, and to visit his wife and children as well.

Of special note in this year’s rally was the presence of Geng He, the wife of renowned lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who on Feb. 4 was abducted and feared tortured and killed by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Security.

Attorney Gao Zhisheng was secretly arrested by the authorities on the 15th. Renowned Chinese lawyers Zhang Jiankang and Li Heping said that this is a large scale operation carried out by the Chinese Communist regime.

Gao Zhisheng and his family's plight. He asks all the foreign officials stationed in Beijing to visit Mrs. Gao and her children at their home. He asks the outside world to help relay the appeal for help from this little girl. He asks Mr.

The persecution and harassment of another prominent attorney, Gao Zhisheng, has been ongoing since he defended some practitioners and wrote a series of open letters to Chinese leader Hu Jintao pleading for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.

CHINA—On December 7, Geng He, wife of renowned Beijing-based human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, was able to meet with one of her friends for the first time since Gao's arrest in August.

So have a handful of supremely courageous Chinese lawyers, among them Gao Zhisheng and Li Heping.

"Why are people like Gao Zhisheng, Chen Guangcheng, Guo Feixiong and Zheng Encong placed under surveillance and detained?

The hunger strike was launched by Beijing's famous human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng. He also talked to Attorney Gao several times over the phone. Consequently, he was constantly tracked and monitored by the local Public Security Bureau.