Wall Street Journal: Please Return My Father

October 29, 2010

By Grace Geng

Please Return My Father


Activist Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been missing since he was kidnapped by the government in April.


Six months ago last week, the Chinese government kidnapped my father, Gao Zhisheng. He was abducted for exercising his right to freedoms of speech and association, rights enshrined in the Chinese constitution. My father's exercise of these most fundamental of freedoms cost our family our livelihood, our country, and now, I fear, my father's life. As President Barack Obama heads to the Group of 20 meeting in Seoul next month and meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao, I beg him to raise my father's case.

BBC News: Daughter Pleads for Lawyer Gao Zhisheng

By Damian Grammaticas
BBC News, Beijing


The teenage daughter of one of China's most prominent human rights activists has appealed to President Barack Obama for help.


Grace Geng said nothing had been heard of her father, Gao Zhisheng, since he was kidnapped by Chinese state security agents six months ago.

Wall Street Journal: Again, Where Is Gao Zhisheng?

Oct 28, 2010


The pioneering human-rights lawyer represents a disturbing extreme case in China's approach to troublemakers.

Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize has brought much-need attention to the struggle of others working for liberty in China. Gao Zhisheng, a human-rights lawyer who has been missing since April, is another example of how Beijing silences troublemakers. Mr. Gao hasn't had the privilege of courts and jails but has simply disappeared, without any official word on the circumstances of what his family and most observers believe to be his detention by the government.

Gao Zhisheng's Brother Appeals in Beijing

ChinaAid
October 22, 2010

BEIJING -- On the afternoon of October 20, 2010, Gao Zhisheng’s oldest brother, Gao Zhiyi tried to speak with police about the disappearance of his brother. The police officers were very evasive and would not file anything about this case.

Accompanied by attorneys Teng Biao and Li Heping, Gao Zhiyi traveled to Xiaoguan Police Station in Chaoyang District on the afternoon of October 21, 2010. Gao Zhisheng has been missing since April 20 of this year and ever since then, there has been no information on him whatsoever. Gao Zhiyi is extremely worried about him, and often finds himself in tears since his brother vanished.