Chinese rights lawyer jailed 2 years, 8 months

Beijing (Reuters)-a Chinese court sentenced a lawyer to defend the people with disabilities, which is known to remove their homes, for a period of two years and eight months in prison on Tuesday for causing interference, and fraud, the Beijing last disputed the right to suppress dissent.

Lawyer, Ni Yulan, and her husband was detained April 2011, Dong Jiqin and later convicted of charges. Rights activists claim were trumped when you try to silence a couple.

Dong was given two years in prison, including "cause disruption", the Court of Justice, the official told reporters in Beijing on the Western suburb of the district.

Ni's imprisonment to stifle the Communist China set-the civil rights movement, which is the position of the textile fabrics from many of the jailing in recent months, the latest version of the signal.

The party is particularly concerned by the fact that the political challenges of leadership succession later this year.

Ni has been outspoken of the Advocate General at the homes are forced to make way for the development, the residents often say the Chinese people is outrageous compensation.

Prosecutors argued that the Ni, who is disabled, and the wheel chair-bound, and Dong beat hotel-or what is called the "Ni" black jail "-workers, in which they were forced to stay at home was demolished after the end of the year 2008.

The "Black jail" is the unofficial detention site, such as a hotel or guesthouse, use Klimaflüchtlinge and performers subject to the legal procedures of petitions.

(Reports of the Sui-Lee viikk; Ben Blanchard; writing editing, Chris Buckley)

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Gao Zhisheng, Detained Chinese Lawyer, Visited by Family

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On Wednesday, Mr. Gao’s wife, Geng He, said her father and Mr. Gao’s brother had been allowed a half-hour visit with him at a prison in the far western region of Xinjiang.

“He was very pale, like someone who hasn’t been in the sunlight for years, but otherwise he seemed healthy,” Ms. Geng said, speaking from California, where she lives in exile with the couple’s two children. “After hearing the news from my family, I slept well for the first time in a long while.”

A widely known dissident here, Mr. Gao, 47, was a celebrated lawyer until he ran afoul of the government by taking on politically delicate cases and exposing shortcomings in the legal system. His clients included victims of medical malpractice and farmers who had lost their land to development, but also persecuted Christians and adherents of Falun Gong, the outlawed spiritual movement. In 2005, he renounced his Communist Party membership and scathingly criticized the government in letters he sent to Chinese leaders.

He was stripped of his law license and taken into custody a year later, in the first of several detentions. He was convicted of inciting subversion of state power. Released on probation, he was largely kept under house arrest, and his family was subjected to constant surveillance. During interrogations, he said, he had been pistol-whipped, prodded with electric batons and lanced with bamboo sticks.

In 2009, his wife and children made a dramatic overland escape from Beijing to Thailand with the help of a Christian organization. They were later granted asylum in the United States.

Mr. Gao’s case has drawn scrutiny from the White House, the United Nations and the European Union, which have urged the Chinese government to explain his whereabouts and release him from custody. During the past two years, Ms. Geng said she wondered whether he was alive.

Last December, the state news media issued a terse statement saying Mr. Gao had been returned to jail for three years because he had violated the terms of his probation. Human rights advocates questioned the ruling, given that Mr. Gao had been continuously in police custody. In January, his brother, Gao Zhiyi, said he had been informed that Mr. Gao was in a prison in Shaya County, in Xinjiang. But until this week, the authorities had not allowed relatives to visit him.

Ms. Geng said that the brief visit on Saturday was closely supervised by the police and that the conversation, via telephone through thick glass, was highly circumscribed. “He couldn’t speak about what had happened to him, but my father didn’t really care,” she said. “He was just thrilled to find him alive.”

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