China Widens Crackdown Amid Calls For Lawyer's Release

Posted on August 28, 2006 7:37 PM | | Comments (0)

By RADIO FREE ASIA
28 August 2006

HONG KONG—Authorities across China have stepped up detentions and surveillance of key rights activists amid growing calls for the release of Beijing-based lawyer Gao Zhisheng.

"Gao Zhisheng was taken away by unidentified men in plain clothes who gave no identification nor any reason for his detention while he was on a trip to Dongying city, Shandong province, to visit his sister," said New York-based writer Hu Ping of Gao’s August 15 arrest.

"Gao Zhisheng is a well-known lawyer who has been on the front line in the battle for civil rights for a very long time," wrote Hu, an occasional RFA commentator, in an open online letter.

"He has been subject to all manner of persecution...and we strongly protest against this and call for his immediate release."

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