{"id":4578,"date":"2011-07-31T04:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T08:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2011-07-28T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T01:44:14","slug":"missing-christian-told-of-50-days-of-torture-by-chinese-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/missing-christian-told-of-50-days-of-torture-by-chinese-police","title":{"rendered":"Missing Christian told of 50 days of torture by Chinese police"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor’s note: <\/strong>This account<\/em> by prominent Chinese attorney Gao Zhisheng is provided by the New York-based China Aid Association.\u00a0Gao is currently missing after being taken into police custody in April 2010.\u00a0 Gao is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times and released. His commitment to defending his clients is influenced by his Christian beliefs and their tenets on morality and compassion. His memoir, A China More Just,<\/strong> documents his \u201cfight as a rights lawyer in the world\u2019s largest communist state.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
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By GAO ZHISHENG<\/strong><\/div>\n
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These words from me today will be finally revealed one day. It will expose its true face in today\u2019s China. It will disclose the unimaginable heart and characteristics of the \u201cruling party\u201d in China. Of course, these words will inevitably bring unpleasant and even upset embarrassed feelings to those global \u201cgood friends\u201d and \u201cnice partners\u201d of today\u2019s Chinese Communist Party \u2013\u00a0if these global \u201cgood friends\u201d and \u201cnice partners\u201d still have some fear to the value of human conscience and morality in their hearts.<\/p>\n

Today, the suddenly well-off CCP has not only gained more and more global \u201cgood friends\u201d and \u201cnice partners\u201d but also has made those perverted slogan such as \u201cChina is a country rule of law\u201d lauder and lauder. Both will be disastrous to the progress and development of the human rights of the Chinese people.<\/p>\n

Around 8 p.m. on September 21, 2007 the authorities notified me orally that I should go for a mind re-education (reform) talk. I found there were some unusual things happening at this time. The secret police, who used to follow me very closely, kept a further distance. I was walking down the street one day and when I turned a corner, about six or seven strangers started walking towards me. I suddenly felt a strong blow to the back of my neck and fell face down on the ground. Someone yanked my hair and a black hood was pulled over my head immediately.<\/p>\n

I was brought to a vehicle and was put in it. Although I couldn\u2019t see, it seemed to me that it had two benches with a space in the middle. I was put in the space in the middle on the floor. My right cheek was on the ground. All of a sudden a boot was put on my face holding me down. Many hands started searching all over me. My belt was pulled off and then used to tie my hands behind my back. At least four people put their feet on me holding me down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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