China sends campaigning rights lawyer back to jail

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has sent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng back to jail, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday, ending his probation in what was the first official account of his whereabouts in the last year. Gao, however, appears never to have escaped secretive confinement in the first place. A combative rights advocate who tackled many causes anathema to the ruling Communist …