China dismisses UN calls to release rights lawyer

[hubag bohol]

30 March 2011



Geng He, the wife of Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng participates in a press conference


BEIJING â€" Beijing on Tuesday dismissed calls by a United Nations human rights agency to free prominent rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, saying the body should respect China's judicial sovereignty.

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention demanded China release Gao, alleging his incarceration breached numerous UN conventions and China's own law, according to a statement released by advocacy group Freedom Now.

"The Working Group requests the Government (of China) to proceed to an immediate release of Mr Zhisheng Gao and provide for reparation of the harm caused as a result of his situation," the statement said.

Written in the form of a judicial opinion, the statement, which Freedom Now said was given to them on Monday also called on the China "to bring the practice in the matter of arrests, detention and trials in conformity with international law."

But China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Tuesday maintained she was unaware of the "specifics" of the case.

"We attach importance to cooperation with the UN human rights' monitoring mechanism and urge the mechanism to respect China's judicial sovereignty," Jiang told reporters. "China is a country under the rule of law."

Gao, who the Working Group called a "a brilliant lawyer known for the defence of human rights", was arrested in February 2009 and has been held incommunicado by the authorities.

Geo briefly reappeared in March last year when he was apparently released by police, speaking with a few friends and colleagues, many of whom reported that he continued to be tailed by authorities and was in ill-health.

Soon afterwards, he disappeared again and has not been heard from since.

The UN statement said police and judicial authorities have refused to issue an arrest warrant, name the charges against Gao, publicly acknowledge he is in custody or tell his family why he has been detained.

It also noted Gao was subject to torture and numerous beatings while in police custody before February 2009.

The statement added that the Chinese government had refused to provide the UN body with information on Gao's case.

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, made up of human rights experts, investigate cases of arbitrary arrest and detention around the world.


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[hubag bohol]

Gao Zhisheng (Chinese: 高智晟, b. 1966) is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting alleged human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times and released. His commitment to defending his clients is influenced by his 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 the book, he accuses the ruling Communist Party of China of state-sponsored torture and reports having been tortured by the Chinese secret police. He disappeared in April 2010 and has not been seen or heard from since. -Wiki

[hubag bohol]

Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been beaten, blinded, and had his family's safety threatened after being arrested numerous times since 2006. All because he refuses to stop fighting for freedom and human rights in China.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental right, and Gao Zhisheng and others like him have risked everything to fight for it.

In 2010, Gao Zhisheng's was briefly released after huge international outcry about the injustice of his arrest. Only two weeks later, though, he was taken once again. Now, Gao's wife does not even know if he is still alive. She, his children, and everyone who looked to him as a voice of freedom and justice deserve to know the truth.

Outrage from the international community made a difference for Gao before; now we must do it again. Tell the Chinese government Gao Zhisheng deserves freedom and justice.

Petition at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/544/758/082/?z00m=19956542

[hubag bohol]

Beijing on Tuesday dismissed calls by a United Nations human rights agency to free prominent rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, saying the body should respect China's judicial sovereignty.

Nakaingon tingali ang China, "Pikat ninyo! Unsa mi, not ascending to superpowerdom?"

[chriswise]

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[hubag bohol]

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[chriswise]

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[hubag bohol]

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[islander]

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[hubag bohol]

tsk, tsk.  flexing its muscles, huh?  (ang china, di si bugsay.)

Hmm, ang buot nimong ipasabot, while China flexes its muscles, Bugsay punctures his pillow?

[islander]

Hmm, ang buot nimong ipasabot, while China flexes its muscles, Bugsay punctures his pillow?

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[hubag bohol]

well, because it is not for china to puncture a pillow...

Hmm, ilang gipa-job-out ni Bugsay?

[islander]

Hmm, ilang gipa-job-out ni Bugsay?

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[hubag bohol]

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[chriswise]

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[hubag bohol]

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[bugsay]

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[bugsay]

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[chriswise]

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[hubag bohol]

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He he, mapugos diay tag body-building kon maohon...