By Zhang Min, Anchor, Spiritual Journey, Radio Free Asia
January 7, 2012
On January 1, 2012, Gao Zhiyi received a notice from the Shaya Jail, which did not mention when the family could visit Gao Zhisheng.
The previous program reported that, on December 16, twenty months after the human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was disappeared, Xinhua News Agency issued a brief English release, saying Gao would be sent back to jail to serve his three year terms due to violation of probation rules. However, since then, there had been no further information on which prison Gao would be put into, and no verdict available to the family, and no notice on when the family could visit him, till January 1, 2012, when Gao Zhiyi, brother of Gao Zhisheng who lives in north Shan’an Xi, received a notice from the Shaya Jail of Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region telling him that his brother was jailed there, yet short of mentioning when the family could visit him.
January 7, 2012
| Gao and his son |
The previous program reported that, on December 16, twenty months after the human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was disappeared, Xinhua News Agency issued a brief English release, saying Gao would be sent back to jail to serve his three year terms due to violation of probation rules. However, since then, there had been no further information on which prison Gao would be put into, and no verdict available to the family, and no notice on when the family could visit him, till January 1, 2012, when Gao Zhiyi, brother of Gao Zhisheng who lives in north Shan’an Xi, received a notice from the Shaya Jail of Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region telling him that his brother was jailed there, yet short of mentioning when the family could visit him.





