Religion and Democracy Threaten Beijing
On December 22 a court in Beijing gave a three-year jail sentence, suspended for five years, to one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, for posting ‘seditious articles’ on the Internet.
For the Communist government, Gao represents a double threat. Not only has he represented protesting farmers and members of Falun Gong and…
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