Gao Zhisheng, a former prisoner of conscience and human rights lawyer, is subject to enforced disappearance and may be at high risk of torture and death. No information about his whereabouts are known since he was taken away from his home in Yulin City, Shaanxi, northwest China, on 13 August 2017. Gao Zhisheng previously shared his experience of repeated torture in detention as a result of his work, raising fears that he is at high risk of torture and other ill-treatment or even death.
