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style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 26px; color: rgb(154, 4, 4); text-align: center;">Gao
Zhisheng Confirmed Tortured <br>
<span style="font-size: 20px;">Named ABA's International Human Rights
Lawyer of the Year</span></p>
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alt="On August 6, Gao's daughter, Geng Ge (Ge Ge), proudly accepted the ABA Lawyer of the Year Award on behalf of her father."
style="border: medium none ;" height="389" width="270" align="right">At
the
annual American Bar Association conference, held in San Francisco
on August 6, 17-year-old Ge Ge smiled as she walked to the podium to
accept the International Human Rights Lawyer of the Year Award on
behalf of her missing father, Gao Zhisheng. </p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px;">"I
am so very proud of my father," she said. "This is the first time that
this award [has been] granted to a Chinese person. If my father knew
that I accepted this award for him, he would be very happy."</p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px;">The
President of ABA expressed warm regards toward Gao Zhisheng, praising
him for his breadth and depth of work for human rights in the Chinese
legal system. Ge Ge then shared her admiration for her father and his
devotion to his work. "Deep in my heart, my father is the type of
person I admire very much. He can get over any difficulties, and he is
not afraid of anything.. I feel that my father is an outstanding
father."</p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px;">Though proud of
her father's accomplishments, Ge Ge admitted, "I have been really
worrying about my dad's situation." Ge Ge and her family continue to
dread the reality that Gao continues to be held hostage by the Chinese
government and may never return home. <b>Read the <a
href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/40742/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(154, 4, 4); font-weight: bold;">Interview
with Ge Ge</a> and <a
href="http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=144&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1511&month=08&year=2010"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(154, 4, 4); font-weight: bold;">coverage
of Gao Zhisheng's ABA award</a>.</b></p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px;">Urge your friends and family to <a
href="http://www.FreeGao.com/index.html?refnum=687522" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(154, 4, 4); font-weight: bold;">Sign the Petition</a>
and <a
href="https://etools.ncol.com/a/maestro/bg_ChinaAidSO_mbm_376.html?refnum=687522"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(154, 4, 4); font-weight: bold;">Donate
today</a> to help Free Gao Zhisheng!</p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px;"><b>ChinaAid refuses to back down</b>
in the call for freedom for Gao Zhisheng, and all other human rights
defenders like him. Reliable sources in China recently confirmed that
Gao Zhisheng was severely tortured last year in Xinjiang, following his
family's escape to the U.S. After briefly resurfacing this March, Gao
Zhisheng was able to talk to his family and visit his brother and
father-in-law, before being kidnapped again by the authorities from
Beijing. No one has seen or heard from him since April 20, 2010. <b>Read
the <a
href="http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=144&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1512&month=08&year=2010"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(154, 4, 4); font-weight: bold;">RFA
Interview with Gao's Brother and Sister</a>.</b> </p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px;">"Gao's
continued forced disappearance is a blatant disregard of the basic
human rights of the Chinese people," says Pastor Bob Fu, who visited
Gao's family in June. "If there is no regard for even a well-respected,
human rights attorney's dignity, what stops the Chinese Government from
exploiting the dignity of its citizens? We will not stop until Gao's
rights are restored, as a law-abiding citizen of China. We will not
rest until Gao Zhisheng is allowed to be reunited unconditionally with
his family in the US."</p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px; font-weight: bold;">ChinaAid
needs your help to free Gao Zhisheng. Your donations help us raise
awareness for Gao's case and fight to preserve the basic human rights
of the citizens and their legal defenders in China.</p>
<p style="padding: 5px 15px; font-weight: bold;">Urge your friends and
family to Sign the Petition and Donate today to help Free Gao Zhisheng!</p>
<p
style="padding: 15px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Visit
<a href="http://www.FreeGao.com/index.html?refnum=687522"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(154, 4, 4); font-weight: bold;">FreeGao.com</a>
to learn more.</p>
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