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Catholic Church Gathers Support for Chinese Lawyer
After Communist Party Close Christian Law Practice
Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) continue to fight freedom of
religion, with human rights abuse disregarding
International Treaties.
The Chinese Communist Government
have ordered civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng to
close his law practice for 12 months in an attempt
to stop his publicly representing persecuted
Christians in China. .
Mr. Gao has been tirelessly
defending and representing the persecuted
“underground” Christian churches and the Falun Gong
practice in China. His recent open letter to leaders
of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) calling for a
halt to the persecution of spiritual practices and
the use of torture practices resulted in a Beijing
judicial authorities Order to close his law firm for
one-year, commencing 4th November.
Mr. Gao Zhisheng has attempted to
represent the persecuted Christians in China; tried
to obtain justice; tried to represent their cases –
releasing details of Christians being brutally
persecuted. The final straw for The Chinese
Communist Government was receiving a letter calling
on President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao to
stop persecuting Falun Gong,”
Mr. Gao states “ what the
Communist regime has done demonstrates there is no
“rule of law” in China. There is only rule by law,
where the CCP just wields out any sort of directive
that suits their ends of staying in power.
Archbishop Gary Beaver and the
“Doing Hard Time for God” project combating global
Christian persecution are supporting the efforts of
Mr Gao, with plans to raise the global awareness of
the human rights abuse taking place in China.
Archbishop Gary Beaver blessed Mr
Gao for representing human and civil rights victims
on pro bono or voluntary basis over the past few
years, and stated that “We are witnessing a
government planned course of systematic, national,
and well organised illegal persecution of
Christians”.
The “Doing Hard Time for God”
project is sending over ten reports involving
torture to the European Court of Human Rights which
exposes interrogation techniques such as deprivation
of sleep for 26 days, force-feeding to the point of
vomiting blood, electric shocked by eight electrodes
simultaneously, and evidence of Christian prisoners
being tortured to death.”
In an official letter to President
Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, Archbishop Gary
Beaver has called for the violent interrogations and
persecution of Christians to cease and asked for the
United Nations to offer a team of UN Observers to be
permitted to enter China to confirm the cessation of
Human Rights abuse. |
