Zhisheng.

The event, “Where Is Gao Zhisheng?” decried Beijing’s forced disappearance of Mr. Gao for the past six years. Mr. Gao was kidnapped by Chinese police from his home in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, on Aug. 13, 2017.

The House Foreign Affairs Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee holds a hearing on China’s Political Prisoners: Where’s Gao Zhisheng?  at 11:00 a.m. ET on April 20.

Gao Zhisheng and all prisoners of conscience currently detained in China." Protesters at the rally were heard chanting in both Chinese and English "Free Gao Zhisheng," "Free the political prisoners," and "Free China."

In early 2001, the Chinese Ministry of Justice named Gao Zhisheng one of the "Top Ten Lawyers in China," and he was promoted on television.  Beginning in 1996, Gao Zhisheng was advocating for the rights of vulnerable groups in China. 

China’s Conscience Gao Zhisheng, Geng He, and their two children in Beijing.

One of the best-known examples is prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for more than eight years.

Renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been missing since 2017. Gao's wife Geng He and their young son and daughter fled to the United States 11 years ago.

The letter recommends many names to be added to the list, including human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, and two Falun Gong practitioners, Xu Na and Zhou Deyong.

It was the first time that Geng He, wife of Gao Zhisheng, set foot in Hong Kong since she left China. Geng He, wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, at a press conference in Hong Kong on June 30, 2019.

In December 2005, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng published his third open letter to top Chinese officials calling for an end to the campaign of persecution of Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) practitioners launched by the Chinese Communist Party

—A crowd of people in front of Cupertino City Hall in California watched and celebrated as the First Step Forum awarded the Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award to renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.

Gao Zhisheng. L: Nov. 2, 2005 at his office in Beijing. (Verna Yu/AFP/Getty Images); R: Photo from 2017. (circulated from activists in China) Geng said she vaguely remembered the last time she spoke to Gao was around Aug. 11.

Born in a cave with only stars to tell time, Gao Zhisheng overcame incredible odds to become one of China’s top attorneys. The people call him “the conscience of China.” But in the eyes of the Communist Party, his pursuit of justice goes too far.

Renowned human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng is being held by authorities Beijing, his brother finally learned after a stressful three weeks of not knowing what had happened to his high-profile brother.

Gao Zhisheng, a high-profile Chinese human rights lawyer who spent many years in jail for his work, has recently been held incommunicado in China.

While under house arrest, Gao Zhisheng secretly composed and smuggled out a 500,000-word manuscript titled, "Year 2017, Stand Up China."

Gao Zhisheng stated in public that he would look into the matter.

BEIJING—In his first interview in five years, leading Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng said he was tortured with an electric baton to his face and spent three years in solitary confinement during his latest period of detention since 2010.

BEIJING—Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been out of contact for three days since voicing support for a fellow activist who was sentenced to prison last week, his wife said Wednesday, Dec. 2.

Prominent examples include renowned lawyers such as Gao Zhisheng, Xie Yang, Xie Yanyi, Wang Quanzhang, Li Heping, and Wang Yu, all of whom have been persecuted for their work.

Gao Zhisheng thanks everyone who cares about him. still has no true freedom of movement, he has peace back home.

The persecuted Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has told his wife, Geng He, who is based in California, not to participate in a meeting with top U.S. officials because of America's failure to take a public and principled stance on rights abuses

McMillan Scott has been following the human rights situation in China for a long time, especially the status of Gao Zhisheng.

After close to five and a half years in detention, some of it in mountain torture chambers, anonymous apartment buildings cut off from his family, and most recently in a remote prison, one of China's most prominent human rights lawyers, Gao Zhisheng,

Attendees held signs reading “Happy Birthday Gao Zhisheng” and “Free Gao Zhisheng Now” while recording video messages to pay tribute to the lawyer.

He also remarked: "The treatment of Gao Zhisheng is a classic, clear case, that shows to the world the evilness of the Chinese Communist Party." U.S. Assistance?

Senators are asking President Barack Obama to "engage the Chinese government at the highest levels" to bring persecuted Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng to the United States.Obama is scheduled to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in November

"I sincerely hope President Obama and Secretary of the State Kerry publicly express their concern for Gao Zhisheng, because this is the most straightforward way to support China's human rights."