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Gao Zhisheng: Join Them, and Prove Your Worth by Helping China’s Historic Change

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 – A commentary in the wake of false charges against Guo Feixiong

e9ab98e699bae6999fe5928ce983ade9a39ee99b84e59ca82006 November 28, 2015

Translated by Matthew Robertson; posted on December 3, 2015

 

GAO ZHISHENG AND GUO FEIXIONG IN 2006.

Gao Zhisheng composed the following letter after hearing about the six year prison sentence handed to rights activist Guo Feixiong, and after reading Guo’s spirited defense and condemnation of the Party’s rule. As the letter made the rounds on social media, the Chinese authorities promptly cut off Gao’s cell phone service and placed him under house arrest in his late mother’s cave dwelling in Shaanxi Province. Both Gao Zhisheng and Guo Feixiong are Christians. — The Editors Continue reading →

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Guo Feixiong: My Final Reply in Court

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e983ade9a39ee99b841November 27, 2015

Translated by Louisa Chiang and Perry Link; posted on December 3, 2015
1On November 27, a year after the trial of Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng, the Tianhe court in Guangzhou sentenced Guo Feixiong to six years in prison by adding a last-minute charge in order to procure a lengthier sentence. In doing so, the Chinese court announced to the world that the law means nothing when it comes to persecuting political dissenters. – The Editors

This verdict violates both justice and the law. It is nothing but Continue reading →

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Jailed Chinese Rights Activist Appeals ‘Illegal’ And ‘Unjust’ Sentence

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2015-12-03

image (7)Guo Feixiong (R) during a gathering with Gao Zhisheng (L) in Beijing, Jan. 6, 2006.
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A prominent Chinese rights activist jailed for six years by a court in the southern city of Guangzhou last week has filed a formal appeal, saying the judgment against him is “illegal and runs counter to natural justice.”

Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” at a hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.

Fellow activists Liu Yuandong and Sun Desheng were also jailed by Continue reading →

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Dissident Chinese Lawyer ‘Incommunicado’ After Online Anger Over Activist’s Sentence

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2015-12-02

e0fc87e8-65f8-441a-9df8-5a751b378bacGao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
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UPDATED at 1:50 p.m. EST on 2015-12-02

Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who remains under house arrest since his release from prison in August 2014, has ‘disappeared’ once more, his friends and family told RFA.

Gao, who is still denied any freedom of movement and access to much-needed medical treatment, lost contact with the outside world after he spoke out against the jailing of a fellow rights lawyer in the southern city of Guangzhou, Gao’s wife Geng He told RFA.

“I called Gao Zhisheng’s older brother last night but he was mumbling with Continue reading →

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Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge

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By CHRIS BUCKLEY NOV. 27, 2015
28china-master180Yang Maodong, a veteran protester better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong. Credit Zhang Qing

BEIJING — Yang Maodong, a hardened veteran of political protest in southern China, knew he had virtually no hope of winning his freedom on Friday when he was brought into a courtroom to face a judge’s verdict on charges that he had disturbed public order.

Chinese judges, after all, convict and imprison indicted dissidents with metronomic consistency, reflecting the ruling Communist Party’s control of the courts.

Still, Mr. Yang — a human rights campaigner better Continue reading →

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Chinese rights activist jailed for six years

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Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:33pm EST

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People's Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014. REUTERS/James Pomfret/Files

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014. REUTERS/James Pomfret/Files

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014.
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A prominent Chinese rights activist, Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years imprisonment Continue reading →

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Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others

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2015-11-23

imageGuo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are expected to announce the verdict in the long-delayed case of a prominent human rights activist later this week after holding him in conditions described by his family as ‘slow torture,’ his lawyer said on Monday.

Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, will attend a verdict hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.

Guo is awaiting the verdict on charges of “gathering a Continue reading →

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Chinese Lawyer’s Solitary Confinement Amounts to ‘Slow Torture’: Wife

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2015-11-18

Guo Feixiong in a file photo.
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The wife of a Chinese rights lawyer who has been in movement-restricted solitary confinement with no fresh air or exercise for more than two years has hit out at his inhumane treatment as Beijing’s torture record is reviewed by the United Nations.

U.S.-based Zhang Qing, wife of jailed Chinese rights lawyer Continue reading →

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