Gao Zhisheng
- January 9, 2024
- Attorney
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Gao Zhisheng Biography
| Name | Gao Zhisheng |
| Birthday | Apr 20 |
| Birth Year | 1964 |
| Place Of Birth | Jia |
| Home Town | Henan |
| Birth Country | China |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Spouse | Geng He |
| Children(s) | Grace Gao |
Gao Zhisheng is one of the most popular and richest Attorney who was born on April 20, 1964 in Jia, Henan, China.
In 1989, the legislature passed the Administrative Procedure Law, which gave Chinese citizens the right to sue state agencies for the first time. In the 1990s, Gao represented the family of a Xinjiang boy who became comatose after a doctor erroneously gave him ethanol intravenously; Gao won $100,000 in damages for a boy who had lost his hearing in another malpractice case. He acted on behalf of a private businessman who had taken control of and redressed a troubled state-owned company when the district government used force to reclaim it after it became profitable. The case went to the Supreme Court, with a verdict in favour of the businessman; however, according to Gao, he has been a victim of reprisals from Xinjiang leaders, who warned clients and court officials to shun him.
With his family not being able to afford elementary school, Gao said he sat listening outside the classroom window. Later, an uncle helped him attend secondary school, after which he qualified to join the People’s Liberation Army. His unit was stationed at a base in Kashgar, in Xinjiang region, and he became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Later, he left the PLA and began working as a food vendor. In 1991, inspired by a newspaper article that mentioned a plan by Deng Xiaoping, then China’s paramount leader, to train 150,000 new lawyers and develop the Chinese legal system, he took a course in law. Gao credited his excellent memory of titles and clauses for passing all his exams; he passed the bar in 1995.
Gao Zhisheng Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Attorney |
| House | Living in own house. |
Gao Zhisheng is one of the richest Attorney from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gao Zhisheng 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Gao Zhisheng (born 20 April 1964) is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times, and severely tortured. He last disappeared in February 2009 and was unofficially detained until December 2011, when it was announced that he has now been imprisoned for three years. His commitment to defending his clients is influenced by his Christian beliefs and their tenets on morality and compassion.
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According to our records, Gao Zhisheng married to Geng He. As of December 1, 2023, Gao Zhisheng’s is not dating anyone.
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On 15 August 2006, after numerous death threats and continued harassment, Gao disappeared while visiting his sister’s family. On 21 September 2006, he was officially arrested. On 22 December 2006, Gao was convicted of “subversion”, and was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended, and placed on probation for five years. The sentence also deprived him of his political rights – the freedom to publish or speak out against the government – for one year. He had publicly confessed to a number of errors. On his liberation, Gao recanted his confession and described torture he said he experienced during his 54 days in custody. He also said his captors threatened he would be killed if he spoke publicly about the matter. In chapter 6 of his memoirs written in 2006, Gao criticised the CCP for employing “the most savage, most immoral, and most illegal means to torture our mothers, torture our wives, torture our children, and torture our brothers and sisters…”. He formally renounced his membership of “this inhumane, unjust, and evil Party”, declaring it “the proudest day of my life.”
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Garik Ranked on the list of most popular Attorney. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Gao Zhisheng celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.
On 22 September 2007, after writing open letters to Vice-President of the European Parliament, Edward McMillan-Scott, and then to US Congress calling for a boycott of the Olympics, Gao was once again taken away from his home, where he had been under house arrest, by Chinese secret police. A letter from Gao claimed that he endured ten days of torture that involved appalling beatings, abuse with electric batons, and the insertion of toothpicks into his genitalia, followed by weeks of emotional torture. Gao wrote that his torturers said his case had become personal with ‘uncles’ in the state security apparatus after he had repeatedly publicised previous mistreatment.
Is Gao Zhisheng still alive?
Gao Zhisheng
Children| Grace Gao
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Gao Zhisheng is a prominent human rights lawyer in China. Over the years, he has been persecuted, kidnapped and sentenced to prison. In August 2017, he went missing again and has not been seen since.