Excerpted from The National:
The non-governmental organisation Human Rights in China last month published an account by the lawyer in which he described 50 days of torture in Sept 2007. The article, titled "Dark Night, Dark Hood, and Kidnapping by Dark Mafia," detailed severe beatings and electric shocks to his genitals.
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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)