Visit to the Dentist as National Security Threat The famous Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was recently denied the right to visit a dentist for reasons of "national security."

Gao Zhisheng, a well-known human rights lawyer, recently called for his wife, Geng He, who is based in California, to boycott a private meeting with a senior State Department official due to the administration's general inaction on human rights and closeness

Gao Zhisheng. "Oh, Mr. Gao, what an inspiration! But he is tortured for upholding justice," said Mr. Hersom. "We are so full of prejudice, that we don't understand other people. I want more people to read the paper. I want them to wake up."

Transcending Fear: The Story of Gao Zhisheng Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 Room 156 3:00 PM This fascinating documentary tells the story of self-made lawyer Gao Zhisheng whose bold altruism cost him everything he knew.

In September 2007, rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng wrote an open letter to the U.S. Congress about human rights in China and, in particular, the persecution of Falun Gong.

The most prominent case is that of Gao Zhisheng, a renowned human rights attorney who spent the better part of the last decade under some form of detention and was brutally tortured for months for offering legal support to practitioners and denouncing

Ma was particularly influenced by the example of Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer from an impoverished background whose ardent and successful defense of even the most disenfranchised clients distinguished him as one of China's best.

‘Help Free Our Fathers’ Cege 'Grace' Gao Gege “Grace” Gao, daughter of renowned human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, said that she last saw her father over five years ago.

Lawyer Gao Zhisheng I have campaigned against this appalling crime against humanity since my visit to Beijing in 2006. 

"Besides Wang Yonghang, there are many other lawyers who are being persecuted, such as Gao Zhisheng, Yu Wensheng, and Tang Jingling." Read the original Chinese article here.

The human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng wrote three open letters to China's top leaders calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.

China's blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng and Geng He, the wife of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, discuss the challenges in a repressive China.

Gao Zhisheng, one of the first Chinese rights lawyers to defend Falun Gong, was badly tortured and abused for years, and remains under house arrest. Others, such as Wang Yu and Zhang Kai, are currently in detention.

After his arrest, Guo provided legal assistance to Gao Zhisheng after the latter was arrested. Guo was then himself arrested following the publication of a book revealing corruption in Liaoning Province.  

We also think of Attorney Gao Zhisheng, who has been persecuted because he represented Falun Gong practitioners. How is he doing in his detention? How is his family doing in the United States during the Chinese New Year?

Matas writes that he and Kilgour were helped by Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng who subsequently lost his license to practise and was imprisoned and tortured for his efforts.

Gao Zhisheng has been under house arrest in his cave home since 2014, and still cannot visit the city to fix his teeth.

It represents a significant shift from 2005, when Gao Zhisheng, the first lawyer to defend Falun Gong practitioners, was initially shunned by his colleagues and warned that he would be setting back the rights defense movement by taking on such a heavily

Zhisheng.

“I knew the basic story of Gao Zhisheng, but when you see the man, the story. It is so profound, unparalleled,” said former diplomat Brian McAdam who also attended the film.

"Lawyers advocating for Falun Gong practitioners, including Gao Zhisheng, are intimidated, disbarred, imprisoned, and/or tortured,” she said.

What Needs Changing For example, Canada's Clive Ansley, who practiced law in Shanghai for 14 years, explains what happened to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, Gao Zhisheng, and many other courageous dissidents: "There is a current saying among Chinese

Yasin's death highlights how difficult it is to obtain information about dissidents in Chinese custody, as in the case of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.

Lawyers like Wang Quanzhang and Gao Zhisheng have always understood that the defense of Falun Gong practitioners was the test case for achieving a China ruled by law.

"Transcending Fear: The Story of Gao Zhisheng” is a documentary about the life of the famous Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng and his endeavor to speak out for incarcerated practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that the Chinese Communist Party

One of Chen's most striking insights during the course of the discussion came when he was asked about the human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.

Gao Zhisheng Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, known by many as "the conscience of China" and twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was moved in August 2014 from prison to house arrest, but could at the time barely walk or speak.

There I also first made contact with Gao Zhisheng, the Christian human rights lawyer, whose 2005 report into the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners led to the closure of his Beijing law office.

Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng (current whereabouts: a remote prison in Xinjiang Province) had his own dealings with the 610 Office.

In the letter, Dostal asks the ambassador to help work to free Gao Zhisheng.