I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.
"Gao Zhisheng" (born 1964) is a Chinese Human rights law/human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting Human rights in the People's Republic of China/human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Government of the People's Republic of China/Chinese government several times, and severely tortured. He last disappeared in February 2009 and was unofficially detained until December 2011, when it was announced that he has now been imprisoned for three years. His commitment to defending his clients is influenced by his Christianity in China/Christian beliefs and their tenets on morality and compassion.
Zhisheng's memoir, A China More Just (2007), documents his "fight as a rights lawyer in the world's largest communist state." In subsequent writing, he accuses the ruling Communist Party of China of State terrorism/state-sponsored torture and reports having been tortured by the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China/Chinese secret police. He Missing person/disappeared in February 2009. At the beginning of 2012, Zhisheng's brother said he had received a court document saying his brother was in Xayar County/Shayar jail in Xinjiang.
More Gao Zhisheng on Wikipedia.It's because we have made the government look really bad by the hunger strikes. And its only way to resolve differences with its own people is violence.
Our event is completely peaceful and legal. We're using our own bodies, in our own homes to do what we choose. Yet people who have joined the hunger strike are disappearing. I don't know exactly how many people, but this is expanding. I've been followed by the police for more than three months and now they've tapped my phones and cut off most of my communication.
The police in different cities, including Beijing, are starting a mass hunt for hunger strikers.
They were worried that I was going to try to go to Zhao's house to pay my respects and they increased security outside my house from 20 to 40 agents.
They disappeared when they saw I had reached my home, where the plainclothes agents were outside.
When I got out to see the license plate, the car started coming toward me and tried to hit me.
It was just an excuse. I guess it has something to do with the legislative session beginning.
People across this country are awakening to their rights and seizing on the promise of the law. But you cannot be a rights lawyer in this country without becoming a rights case yourself.
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