Tag: Geng He

Wife of Missing Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Implores US Lawmakers for Assistance

It has been more than five years and Geng He still doesn’t know whether her husband in China is still alive. Her husband, Gao Zhisheng, a renowned human rights lawyer, went missing from his home in northern China’s Shaanxi Province in August 2017. At that time, Gao had already been subjected to torture by Chinese…


Wife of China’s Missing Human Rights Lawyer Implores US Lawmakers for Assistance

It has been more than five years and Geng He still doesn’t know whether her husband in China is still alive. Her husband, Gao Zhisheng, a renowned human rights lawyer, went missing from his home in northern China’s Shaanxi Province in August 2017. At that time, Gao had already been subjected to torture by Chinese…


Family Marks 5th Year of Disappearance of Chinese Human Rights Lawyer

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s wife Geng He unveiled a sculpture of Gao at the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington D.C., on Sept. 20. The sculpture is a floating portrait of Gao Zhisheng made by Geng He and their two children using 7,355 bullet shells. Due to his work defending persecuted…


Wife of ‘China’s Conscience’ Gao Zhisheng Worries He Has Been Murdered

The wife of Gao Zhisheng—known as “China’s conscience”—worries that the Chinese Communist Party has murdered the human rights lawyer. On April 14, she demanded Beijing answer two requests and said she would take further action if they did not acknowledge her right to information on her husband who is in state custody. “If Gao Zhisheng…