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Building Constitutionalism in ChinaRights Activism in China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng

Building Constitutionalism in China: Rights Activism in China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng [In late 2005, a Chinese lawyer named Gao Zhisheng decided to address a particularly “sensitive” political issue in a particularly provocative way. He published an online call, addressed to China’s leadership, to stop the torture of Falungong practitioners, substantiating his appeal by detailed descriptions of individual cases of torture, which he claimed to have received from the tortured victims themselves (Gao 2005a). Within days, his Beijing law firm’s license to practice was suspended and he was put under surveillance by the secret police. However, these were not the only consequences. Following his public call for a hunger strike to oppose state violence, launched a few months later, he was also subjected to vehement criticism by other Chinese lawyers and rights activists, who advised, implored, or even angrily demanded of him to stop. At one point, he narrowly escaped being imprisoned in a yaodong cave by his own brothers in his home village in the province of Shaanxi.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Building Constitutionalism in ChinaRights Activism in China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series
Editors: Balme, Stéphanie; Dowdle, Michael W.
Pils, Eva
Building Constitutionalism in China — Nov 18, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
ISBN
978-1-349-36978-2
Pages
243 –260
DOI
10.1057/9780230623958_14
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Abstract

[In late 2005, a Chinese lawyer named Gao Zhisheng decided to address a particularly “sensitive” political issue in a particularly provocative way. He published an online call, addressed to China’s leadership, to stop the torture of Falungong practitioners, substantiating his appeal by detailed descriptions of individual cases of torture, which he claimed to have received from the tortured victims themselves (Gao 2005a). Within days, his Beijing law firm’s license to practice was suspended and he was put under surveillance by the secret police. However, these were not the only consequences. Following his public call for a hunger strike to oppose state violence, launched a few months later, he was also subjected to vehement criticism by other Chinese lawyers and rights activists, who advised, implored, or even angrily demanded of him to stop. At one point, he narrowly escaped being imprisoned in a yaodong cave by his own brothers in his home village in the province of Shaanxi.]

Published: Nov 18, 2015

Keywords: National People; Open Letter; Home Village; Arbitrary Rule; Hunger Strike

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