Gao Zhisheng - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Apr 20, 1964 Jia County, Shaanxi, China 60 years old

Chinese human rights lawyer

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About Gao Zhisheng

  • Gao Zhisheng (born 20 April 1964) is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses in China.
  • Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times, and severely tortured.
  • He last disappeared in February 2009 and was unofficially detained until December 2011, when it was announced that he has now been imprisoned for three years.
  • His commitment to defending his clients is influenced by his Christian beliefs and their tenets on morality and compassion. Gao's memoir, A China More Just (2007), documents his "fight as a rights lawyer in the world's largest communist state." In subsequent writing, he accuses the ruling Communist Party of China of state-sponsored torture and reports having been tortured by the Chinese secret police.
  • He disappeared in February 2009.
  • At the beginning of 2012, Gao's brother said he had received a court document saying his brother was in Shayar jail in Xinjiang.
  • In 2014, it was reported that Zhisheng was released from jail and put under house arrest.
  • He disappeared again in August 2017 in an apparent attempt to escape house arrest and was subsequently taken back into custody on his recapture in September.

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