Chinese Prisoners and Detainees - Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jia, Liao Yiwu, Ilham Tohti, Shi Tao, Huang Qi, Ching Cheong, Mao Hengfeng, Hada (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jia, Liao Yiwu, Ilham Tohti, Shi Tao, Huang Qi, Ching Cheong, Mao Hengfeng, Hada, Cheng Jianping, Karma Samdrup, Phuntsog Nyidron, Yang Chunlin, Yuan Xianchen, Ngawang Chophel, Wu Lihong, Jiang Weiping, Jennifer Zeng, Tan Kai, Takna Jigme Zangpo, Han Dingxiang, Nien Cheng, Dolma Kyab, Ani Pachen, Samuel Lamb, Runggye Adak, Pan Hannian, Xue Feng, Ngawang Sangdrol, Yang Bin, Cai Zhuohua. Excerpt: Gao Zhisheng (Chinese: , 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. Gao was born and grew up in a cave dwelling in Shaanxi Province with six siblings; his father died at the age of 40. He briefly worked in a coal mine. With his family not being able to afford elementary school, Gao said he sat listening outside the classroom window. Later, an uncle helped him attend secondary school, after which he qualified to join the People's Liberation Army. His unit was stationed at a base in Kashgar, in Xinjiang region, and he became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Later, he left the PLA and began working as a food vendor. In 1991, inspired by a newspaper article that mentioned a plan by Deng Xiaoping, then...