Prominent Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Released

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On Thursday, Chinese authorities released prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng from a prison in Xinjiang after he was held there for almost three years for “inciting subversion of state power.” Gao, who is known for handling politically sensitive cases on behalf of clients such as underground Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, has been repeatedly detained and mistreated since 2005. Megha Rajagopalan at Reuters reports:

China freed a prominent human rights lawyer after three years in prison on Thursday, his brother told Reuters, ending the latest period of detention for the religious-freedom campaigner whose treatment attracted international condemnation.

Gao Zhisheng, a Beijing-based lawyer, was held for almost three years from December 2011 at a remote prison in the far-western region of Xinjiang. He was accused of inciting subversion of state power, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

“He’s out, he’s free, he’s at his father-in-law’s house,” his brother, Gao Zhiyi, said by telephone.

 

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