Michael D. Goldhaber, The Litigation Daily
October 31, 2014
Gao Zhisheng in The American Lawyer, November 2005.
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Michael D. Goldhaber, The Litigation Daily
October 31, 2014
Gao Zhisheng in The American Lawyer, November 2005.
In November 2005, The American Lawyer ran a full-page photo of the Continue reading
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Birth date 1964-04-20
Birth place Jia County Yulin City, Shanxi Province
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Chinese authorities said they detained Mr Huang for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”
Police arrested Mr Huang, 81, at his Beijing home early on Sunday morning.
Mr Huang’s wife was later told he had been detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
She said he had written online articles which criticised Communist Party propaganda chief Liu Yunshan for restrictions of press freedom.
She told the Associated Press that her husband’s medical carer had also been detained on the same charge, with no reason given as to why.
The South China Morning Post reported that Mr Huang served 23 years in prison when he was in his twenties for being a “rightist” during Mao Zedong’s crackdown on liberals.
The Communist Party eventually cleared his name in 1980.
Widespread crackdown
Mr Huang’s arrest comes a week after a court in Guangzhou postponed the trial of prominent human rights activist Yang Maodong after he instructed his lawyers to boycott proceedings.
Mr Yang, who is also known by his pen-name Guo Feixiang, has claimed that the trial is illegal and improper. He is accused of disturbing public order.
Chinese authorities have mounted a widespread crackdown on dissenters in recent years.
Dozens of activists and government critics are said to have been targeted, with many detained, and some prosecuted on broad public order charges.
Last month, well-known Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng was released having allegedly suffering physical and psychological abuse in jail.
BBC
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Daughters of detained Chinese activists on Wednesday (Sep 17) demanded a meeting with President Barack Obama, saying he must double down on efforts to win their release when he meets Chinese leaders.
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THEY KEPT him in a cell so small he could walk barely two steps in any direction. There was no sunlight, no ventilation; just one five-watt bulb, burning dimly 24 hours a day. Continue reading
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An account of Gao Zhisheng’s decade-long government persecution.
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By Yaxue Cao, published: August 15, 2014
GAO ZHISHENG DURING HIS BRIEF REAPPEARANCE IN APRIL 2010.
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2014-08-14
Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
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