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Missing China activist Gao Zhisheng 'tortured'

One of China's most prominent human rights activists, Gao Zhisheng, has told of his torture by police during more than a year in secret detention.

The lawyer told the Associated Press he was stripped naked, beaten and pistol-whipped until he feared for his life.

Mr Gao gave the interview last April - just two weeks before he went missing.

He asked that his account only be published if he disappeared or arrived "someplace safe" like the US. Mr Gao has not been seen for several months.

The AP said it decided to publish his account given the length of his current disappearance.

Mr Gao is one of China's leading human rights defenders. In 2006, he was sentenced to three years in prison for "inciting subversion" but the jail term was suspended for five years.
Death threats

Mr Gao said that during his 14-month ordeal he had been moved between Beijing, his native province of Shaanxi and the far western region of Xinjiang.

He said weeks of inactivity were punctuated by outbursts of brutality.
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TIMELINE: GAO ZHISHENG

* 2005: Authorities close down Gao Zhisheng's law practice
* Dec 2006: Convicted of subversion and sentenced to house arrest
* Sept 2007: Says he was tortured during a period of detention
* Jan 2009: Disappears; last seen accompanied by security officials
* Mar 2010: Reappeared for a month before disappearing again

* Profile: Gao Zhisheng

He described being bound with belts and hooded, while his jailers threatened to kill him.

"You must forget you're human. You're a beast," Mr Gao said his tormentors told him in September 2009.

He said he was told by Beijing police that he was "not good enough" for prison. "Whenever we want you to disappear, you will disappear," he quoted police as saying.


In October, Mr Gao's daughter, Grace Geng, appealed to US President Barack Obama for help in an open letter.

She said her father had been abducted and tortured "for exercising his right to freedom of speech".

She said she too, aged 12, was beaten by police and barred from going to school; she finally fled China with her mother and brother in 2009.

Human rights advocates often cite Mr Gao's case along with that of Liu Xiaobo, the jailed academic awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, as examples of what they say is the Chinese Communist Party's increasing persecution of human rights defenders in China.

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He is not true human rights activist. These so called "human rights activist" all seem to have the same priority, which is to cause civil unrest in China and surprisingly they all seem to be very pro-US despite the fact that the US has a human rights track record which surpasses that of all the countries in the world combined in the last century.

All these human rights activist in China that gets this much publicity all seemingly favor US policy, no matter what it is. I wouldn't be a bit shocked to find that Gao Zhisheng supports all the wars in the middle east, just like Liu Xiaobo, who also believes China "needs" to be colonized.

These people are not human rights activist; they are simply a tool that the United States uses to cause internal disruption and also tarnishes China's global image.

It is all part of the 'soft power' war the US is waging on China. China should start reporting on US 'dissidents' and there are many. Until then, China can only take the punches.

:china:
 
Publish some photos. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.

On the other hand I can't imagine his family being allowed to escape the country when he is a criminal. I strongly suggest checking his bank account for cash flows.
 
He is not true human rights activist. These so called "human rights activist" all seem to have the same priority, which is to cause civil unrest in China and surprisingly they all seem to be very pro-US despite the fact that the US has a human rights track record which surpasses that of all the countries in the world combined in the last century.

All these human rights activist in China that gets this much publicity all seemingly favor US policy, no matter what it is. I wouldn't be a bit shocked to find that Gao Zhisheng supports all the wars in the middle east, just like Liu Xiaobo, who also believes China "needs" to be colonized.

These people are not human rights activist; they are simply a tool that the United States uses to cause internal disruption and also tarnishes China's global image.

It is all part of the 'soft power' war the US is waging on China. China should start reporting on US 'dissidents' and there are many. Until then, China can only take the punches.

:china:


perhaps you can provide quotes or some other form of evidence to prove your claims about him? all I see is a lot of history distorting and conjecture.

are there any human rights people you consider to be valid? or is it simply that you consider anyone that speaks out on the subject a liar and U.S. imperialist stooge?
 
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perhaps you can provide quotes or some other form of evidence to prove your claims about him? all I see is a lot of history distorting and conjecture.

are there any human rights people you consider to be valid? or is it simply that you consider anyone that speaks out on the subject a liar and U.S. imperialist stooge?

Of course there are legitimate human rights protestors. The person who got sentenced to jail for speaking out on behalf of the Sanlu parents, for example. There was a huge outcry in China for this, but since he doesn't support "democracy" there was no response in the western media.

On the other hand no one even knows about Gao and could care less what happens to him, until he turned traitor.
 
thanks for caring about some Chinese "dissent".

now please stop killing teenage Kashmir protesters and burning your women who can't afford dowry.
 
He is not true human rights activist. These so called "human rights activist" all seem to have the same priority, which is to cause civil unrest in China and surprisingly they all seem to be very pro-US despite the fact that the US has a human rights track record which surpasses that of all the countries in the world combined in the last century.

All these human rights activist in China that gets this much publicity all seemingly favor US policy, no matter what it is. I wouldn't be a bit shocked to find that Gao Zhisheng supports all the wars in the middle east, just like Liu Xiaobo, who also believes China "needs" to be colonized.

These people are not human rights activist; they are simply a tool that the United States uses to cause internal disruption and also tarnishes China's global image.

It is all part of the 'soft power' war the US is waging on China. China should start reporting on US 'dissidents' and there are many. Until then, China can only take the punches.

:china:

Quite frankly you have no clue on Gao Zhisheng's views outside of China, nor do I. Quite frankly whether he agrees with US wars or is adamantly opposed to them is irrelevant, as this is purely about the domestic policy of China, where torturing and disappearing (as well as presumably killing) citizens of China who peacefully disagree with the government (that is not killing people or directly advocating the killing of people) is not only tolerated by all, it is accepted and defended by people like you. 'Internal disruption' is not synonymous with treason, Martin Luther King Jr. was part of a very successful 'internal disruption'.

The United States government isn't in total control of what news stations report, like in China. China is news by virtue of what makes Chinese nationalists proud, their rising economic clout and military clout, thus news stations report on it. China's single most glaring flaw is its human rights issues as compared to the developed world, thus it is reported upon.

What dissidents can China report upon that havn't been reported on by the Western media outlets themselves? Domestic human rights is not an uncovered issue, in fact it is always an issue, at least in the US.
 

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