The Global Coalition in Support of Attorney GaoZhisheng released a statement on April 7 condemning the persecution of Gao and his family while demanding their full freedom.
Wang Quanzhang, GaoZhisheng, and other human rights lawyers who represented Falun Gong practitioners have themselves been harassed, imprisoned, and tortured.
On Dec. 29 last year, the European Union issued a statement, expressing concerns about Yu and Zhang’s cases, as well as other detained and convicted Chinese human rights defenders such as GaoZhisheng.
The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) recently granted famous Chinese human rights lawyer, GaoZhisheng, the Courageous Advocacy Award and invited him to attend an award ceremony in California on June 30 this year.
The Chairs further call for renewed diplomatic efforts to seek information on the status of GaoZhisheng—arbitrarily detained, tortured, and missing since August 2017."
Attorney Gao said no matter how many people join, he can afford it." A petitioner warned GaoZhisheng of these rumors. GaoZhisheng said, "This is obviously another incredibly despicable means of framing me for an accusation."
News of the groundbreaking work of Chinese human rights attorney GaoZhisheng has begun to reach the outside world. Recently, Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia met with Gao, and shared the experience on Sound of Hope Radio.
So many Chinese heroes, from intellectuals like Charter 08 author Liu Xiaobo to labor activists like Wei Zhili, from lawyers like GaoZhisheng to journalists like Zhang Wenmin, have been killed, jailed, or disappeared while tens of millions of girls have
Prominent human rights lawyer GaoZhisheng was detained and tortured by the Chinese regime since 2006 as a result of his work defended dissidents and persecuted groups suppressed by the government.
Attorney GaoZhisheng was arrested in Shandong on August 15 and has not been released as of this date. Two days before Gao's arrest, the Epoch Times interviewed him regarding what officials and the public see happening in Chinese politics.
“I am the wife of China’s human rights lawyer GaoZhisheng, who has been missing for 844 days,” Geng He stated at the beginning of her open letter, which was written in Chinese.
Renowned Beijing human rights attorney GaoZhisheng was sentenced to three years imprisonment with a probation period of five years for "instigating subversion of state power" at the end of last year.
After 11 a.m., GaoZhisheng and Ma Wendu left Gao's home town with Gao's fourth brother who drove the car for them. Gao said, "Again they have forced me out of my hometown.
Please pay high attention to the safety of lawyer GaoZhisheng. If one person is enslaved, all of us will have no freedom! I called GaoZhisheng several times but the phone was always busy.
It means a misery that has become a national misery, since many people were arrested simply because they had contacted GaoZhisheng once. For those people, the Chinese authorities have made them believe GaoZhisheng means 'disaster.'"
An open letter from the World Union to GaoZhisheng read: "Attorney Gao, China and the international society are watching out for your safety every second.
I think GaoZhisheng would be pleased to see that. "Or, if you don't have the moral integrity to become Havel and Walesa and use all means to stop GaoZhisheng from becoming … [like them], then the effect will turn out to be the opposite.
Analysts in China think that the publicity of the publication of The Selected Works of Jiang Zemin and the arrest of GaoZhisheng mark a new stage in how high level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials treat Falun Gong and GaoZhisheng.
Renowned Chinese attorney GaoZhisheng was kidnapped on August 15 by several plainclothes policemen while visiting his critically-ill brother-in-law at his sister's home in Dongying City, Shangdong Province.
Gao Talks to People on the Way to His Hometown GaoZhisheng: The journey was not a great distance, yet it still took about ten hours. Normally, the driving time would have been just over four hours.
They asked people from all walks be informed so that they can call for the release of GaoZhisheng. According to a notice from Geng He, Gao Zhisheng's wife, GaoZhisheng was taken away by police at 12:20 p.m.
