{"id":2567,"date":"2014-08-09T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2014-08-09T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T16:28:07","slug":"prominent-rights-lawyer-is-freed-from-chinese-prison-his-relatives-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/prominent-rights-lawyer-is-freed-from-chinese-prison-his-relatives-say","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Rights Lawyer Is Freed From Chinese Prison, His Relatives Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

By CHRIS BUCKLEYAUG. 7, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gao Zhisheng in 2010. Credit Gemunu Amarasinghe\/Associated Press<\/p>\n

HONG KONG \u2014 One of China\u2019s most famous dissident lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, was released from prison on Thursday, his wife and brother said. But it remained unclear how much freedom Mr. Gao would enjoy and whether he would be able to reunite with his exiled wife and children eight years after he disappeared into a shroud of repeated detention and, he has said, torture.<\/p>\n

Before the police detained him in 2006, Mr. Gao had embraced a succession of politically contentious cases and causes, emerging as one of China\u2019s most prominent, and combative, human rights advocates. But his conviction that year for \u201cinciting subversion of state power\u201d made him an example of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s determination to silence dissent using means that rights advocates and a United Nations panel have called arbitrary and ruthless.<\/p>\n

That official secrecy at first left unclear even whether Mr. Gao had been freed from prison Thursday after serving out his sentence. Later on Thursday, his older brother confirmed that he had accompanied Mr. Gao as he left the prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s out. Everything is fine,\u201d the brother, Gao Zhiyi, said in a brief telephone interview. He said he and his brother were in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, the region in far western China where Mr. Gao had been imprisoned. \u201cHe\u2019s in his father-in-law\u2019s home,\u201d said the brother. But he would not comment on how long Mr. Gao would stay in Urumqi, or what might happen next.<\/p>\n

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