Article from Spanish Web Site: A Human Rights Lawyer in China Is Being Persecuted by the Government

The famous Spanish website TERRA reported that Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhicheng had his legal practice forcibly closed because he wrote a letter calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. The report is as follows:

The famous Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhicheng was forced to close his legal chamber for a year by the Chinese Communist Government because he wrote letters to the government to asking them to stop the persecution of the Falun Gong group.

“The Judiciary Office informed me shut down the chamber for one year yesterday. If I opposed, they would limit my personal freedom,” lawyer Gao said.

According to Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post, Zhicheng Chamber was forcibly closed and had to give up many important, sensitive cases that it was handling and that other lawyers dare not take. For example, the bloody violent persecution against ordinary citizens by the Guangdong province government which illegally took possession of Taishi villagers’ land, the arrest of Chinese underground Catholic Bishop Cai Chonghua, the seven-year illegal sentencing of internet dissenter Zheng Yichun and so on.

After lawyer Gao wrote an open letter to the Chinese government’s President Hu and the Chinese Prime Minister Wen to ask them to stop the persecution of the Falun Gong group, he got an administration order from the government asking him to withdraw the open letter and forcing him to close his chamber.

Falun Gong, introduced by Mr. Li Hongzhi in 1992, has 70 million practitioners in China. However, the Chinese Communist government scared a huge number of people and banned it in 1999 in the name of endangering the nation’s security. Actually it is a physical improvement method, just like Qigong, with some exercises and philosophical spiritual guidance.

In the meantime, the Chinese Communist Party thinks Falun Gong is the biggest threat since the Tiananmen student movement in 1989. Therefore, its former president Jiang Zemin went to every length to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and put them into labour camps.

According to the related statistics, China is the country with the strictest control of the Internet, and also illegally arrested and imprisoned the most reporters in the world. The government uses ironfisted suppression on any non-governmental organizations.