Gao Zhisheng was abducted 7 years ago. His wife Geng He asks: is he dead or alive?
August 13, 2024, is the seventh anniversary of Gao Zhisheng’s abduction by the Chinese Communist Party. Day and night for seven whole years, my family and I have asked everywhere, looked everywhere, but have never received the smallest shred of news. In the midst of despair we have hoped and prayed, yet waited in vain for any information.
China, the world calls you a great nation, and you claim to be proud of taking the responsibilities of a great nation. But do you fulfill your responsibilities for your own people? You disappear a citizen, a human rights lawyer of renown, in broad daylight for seven years. Neither his family nor the international community have been able to determine his whereabouts. You, China, proclaim to “rule the nation by the rule of law.” But while a criminal can be tracked down in prison, Gao Zhisheng, an internationally-known Chinese attorney and lawful citizen, is inhumanely stripped of any trace of his existence. What kind of cold and cruel nation is this?
Forced Abortion Survivor Tells His Story
The Barefoot Lawyer Reports on China is proud to announce the publication of a report on Confucius Institutes and the Chinese Communist Party’s infiltration of American academic institutions. Watch the video here!
Chinese Farmers Speak Out against Communist Policies
Farmers are getting pennies for their crops in China because of unsustainable price controls imposed by the Communist Party. The Barefoot Lawyer Reports on China has translated this video from China, in which a farmer laments netting just over $200 in earnings for a year’s worth of labor. Watch the video here!
November 21, 2023: Letter to Ambassador of South Korea concerning Shen Yun Performances
On November 21, 2023, Sen Nieh, Fellow at the Center for Human Rights, sent a letter to Ambassador Cho of the Hyun-dong Embassy of the Republic of Korea. The letter expresses concern that 13 South Korean government-affiliated theaters have rejected the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company, whose mission is to preserve Chinese classical dance, from performing at their venues. The Communist Party has gone to great lengths to suppress this traditional form of Chinese art, as it views such artistic expressions as antithetical to the Party’s culture. Signatories on this letter include Dr. William Saunders, Director of the Center for Human Rights. Read the letter here!
August 14, 2023: Gao Zhisheng's Wife's Message for Xi Jinping
For six years, human rights activist Gao Zhisheng has been missing. Nobody knows if he is still alive. Throughout his career, Gao was intimidated, harassed, and tortured by the Communist Party. In this recently translated statement obtained by The Barefoot Lawyer Reports on China, his wife, Geng He, demands Chinese President Xi Jinping investigate his disappearance. Watch Her Statement Here!
March 25, 2023: Chinese Embassy Protest
On March 25, 2023, Center for Human Rights Fellow Chen Guangcheng was invited to attend an anti-Communist Party protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC. Guangcheng brought several other renowned human rights activists with him, including China Aid President Bob Fu and three women whose husbands are currently imprisoned by the Communist Party. The protest was organized by The Catholic University of America’s Young Americans for Freedom, and you can learn more about the event on our upcoming podcast episode!
July 20, 2011: Dark Night, Dark Hood and Kidnapping by Dark Mafia
Gao Zhisheng’s account of more than 50 days of torture in 2007: “These words from me today will be finally revealed one day. It will expose its true face in today’s China. It will disclose the unimaginable heart and characteristics of the “ruling party” in China. Of course, these words will inevitably bring unpleasant and even upset embarrassed feelings to those global “good friends” and “nice partners” of today’s CCP- IF these global “good friends” and “nice partners” still have some fear to the value of human conscience and morality in their hearts. Today, the suddenly well off CCP has not only gained more and more global “good friends” and “nice partners” but also has made those perverted slogan such as “China is a country rule of law” lauder and lauder. Both will be disastrous to the progress and development of the human rights of the Chinese people.”
May 27, 2022: Letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Chen Guangcheng, Distinguished Senior Fellow at our Center for Human Rights and several prominent human rights activists from across the globe signed letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressing their concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s detainment of two prominent activists, Gao Zhisheng and Sun Wenguang (pictured on the left wearing shirts in support of freeing Guangcheng from Chinese prison). Read the letter here! (for further information, we recommend two Chinese articles here and here)
January 1, 2022: Open letter: 2022 New Year’s Declaration on China’s Human Rights Crisis
Chen Guangcheng, Distinguished Senior Fellow at our Center for Human Rights, and Dr. Bob Fu, Founder and President of China Aid, signed this open letter against the Chinese Communist Party’s oppression of human rights, hoping for change in 2022. Read the letter here!