China: Further information on: Fear for safety/ death threats: Gao Zhisheng (m)

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Index Number: ASA 17/055/2006
Date Published: 22 October 2006
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been formally arrested on charges of "inciting subversion". He is still held at an unknown location and has no access to his lawyer or family. Amnesty International fears that he is at risk of torture and ill-treatment.