Excerpted from AFP:
State security personnel took Gao [Zhisheng] from his home village in the northwestern province of Shaanxi on Feb. 4 and he hasn't been heard from since, according to the New York-based Human Rights in China.
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For more information on this issue:
- “Family of Missing Rights Defense Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Arrives in U.S,” March 11, 2009
- Human Rights in China, “Torture Account by Missing Rights Defense Lawyer Gao Zhisheng,” February 8, 2009
- Joint statement by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Human Rights in China, “Human Rights Lawyer in Arbitrary Detention,” February 2, 2009
- Human Rights in China, “HRIC Statement on Gao Zhisheng's Sentence,” December 22, 2006
- Kerry Brown, "Review of Gao Zhisheng's A China More Just," China Rights Forum, 2008, no.1.
- 黑夜、黑头套、黑帮绑架 (Chinese original)
- Dark Night, Dark Hood, and Kidnapping by Dark Mafia (English translation)
