BEIJING (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights body denounced on Friday the detention of one of China’s best known human rights lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, urging the government to release him. A Beijing court sent Gao back to jail earlier this month, though he appears never to have escaped secretive confinement in the first place. “It is alarming that Mr. Gao continues to be arbitrarily detained …
2011-12-23