One of China’s most famous dissident lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, was released from prison on Thursday, his brother said. But it remained unclear how much freedom Mr. Gao would enjoy and whether he would be able to reunite with his exiled wife and children eight years after he disappeared into a shroud of repeated detention and, he has said, torture.
Before the police detained him in 2006, Mr. Gao had embraced a succession of politically contentious cases and causes, emerging as one of China’s most prominent, and combative, human rights advocates. But his conviction that year for “inciting subversion of state power” made him an example of the Chinese Communist Party’s determination to silence dissent using means that rights advocates and a United Nations panel have called arbitrary and ruthless.
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Chris Buckley, New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1nwfgwP
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