Category Archives: Writers in Prison

Chinese police question rights lawyer about meeting with former U.S. envoy

BY SUI-LEE WEE

BEIJING Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:31pm BST

Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in BeijingChinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
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Yaxue Cao: Save Gao Zhisheng

By Yaxue Cao, published: August 15, 2014

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GAO ZHISHENG DURING HIS BRIEF REAPPEARANCE IN APRIL 2010.

Few Americans know Gao Zhisheng. Continue reading

Chinese Dissident Gao ‘Utterly Destroyed’ Following Torture in Prison

2014-08-14

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Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
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Lawyer For Uyghur Scholar Denied Evidence Ahead of Trial

2014-08-13 

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Ilham Tohti in Beijing, August 2012.
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Prominent Rights Lawyer Is Freed From Chinese Prison, His Relatives Say

By CHRIS BUCKLEYAUG. 7, 2014

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Gao Zhisheng in 2010. Credit Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press

HONG KONG — One of China’s most famous dissident lawyers, Continue reading

Gao Zhisheng Begins Sentence of Deprivation of Political Rights

Thursday, August 7, 2014
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Gao Zhisheng was released from Xijiang’s Shaya Prison on August 7, 2014. Image credit: rfa.org
Gao Zhisheng (高智晟), a defense lawyer known for taking on politically sensitive Continue reading

Nearly One Year Later, Chinese Investigative Journalist Who Exposed Corruption Released on Bail

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Bjorklundk

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Liu Hu in an undated photo courtesy of Reporters Without Borders.

Rights groups are welcoming the release of Chinese investigative reporter Continue reading

Chinese dissident freed but real freedom unlikely

Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
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BEIJING — Chinese dissident and human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been released after spending three years in prison but authorities may severely restrict his freedom, his lawyer, friends and human rights activists said Thursday.

Gao, 50, has defended some of China’s most persecuted people. He was released Thursday after serving a sentence for “inciting subversion of state power,” a state security charge that Human Rights Watch, a New York-based group, says is often used against peaceful government critics. Continue reading