Английская Википедия:Grace Gao (activist)
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Grace Gao, also known as Grace Geng,[1] is a Chinese-American human rights activist. She is daughter of imprisoned Chinese human rights lawyer and dissident Gao Zhisheng.[2] She and her family have been spied on, beaten and intimidated by the Chinese authorities.[2] She lectures internationally to promote her father's book A China More Just and to bring attention to his case (currently, he has been disappeared by the Chinese authorities[3]), and speak out against human rights abuses in China.[2][4][5]
Early life
Gao was escorted to school everyday by police officers who followed her wherever she went.[2] Grace self-harmed because of her distress at her experiences[6] and, at 17 years old, she was suicidal, attempting to take her life on several occasions.[1] She found it difficult to understand her father's choices.[1]
After Gao was prohibited by the government from attending school,[2] her mother decided to smuggle her and her brother (Peter, b. 2005) out of China.[2] On 9 January 2009 they fled to Thailand via motorcycle and bus (hiding in the luggage hold),[7] then went to the United States where they received political asylum.[7][8] In New York, Grace underwent six months of hospital treatment for mental health issues, but still found it hard to trust people.[1] She learned to understand her father[7] and support him.[1]
Education
Grace learned English after she came to the United States, graduated from high school at 20,[7] and went on to study economics at a Californian university.[1]
Life after Gao Zhisheng arrest
Following Gao's father's resignation from the Chinese Communist Party in 2005[9] and his accusations that the government was running extrajudicial "brainwashing base" for dealing with Falun Gong practitioners,[10] Gao's family were put under 24-hour police surveillance.[7] Over a number of years, her father received death threats and, according to Amnesty International,[11] in 2006 escaped an assassination attempt. On 15 August 2006 Gao Zhisheng disappeared while visiting his sister's family and was officially arrested on 21 September 2006. His family were beaten.[2] This was the start of a number of extended forced disappearances and arrests Gao Zhisheng experienced over subsequent years.[1][12] He was tortured whilst in custody and is still under house arrest.[1] Grace was bullied at school because of her father's work[1] and other students were warned not to talk to her.[7] The security agents who escorted her to school would check her bag each morning for 'dangerous or forbidden items', messing up the contents of her school bag.[6] The officers would beat her.[5]
In 2016, she visited Hong Kong to launch her father's memoir[1] and met with UN officials in Geneva.[5] Grace attended the Oslo Freedom Forum in May 2017 where she lectured on "A China More Just"[2][13] and in the October met with UK officials to discuss her father's case.[14] In 2018, in an open letter to Angela Merkel, she called on the German Chancellor to speak out on behalf of her father during a state visit to China.[15]
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9 J. Liu, 'Grace Geng: Chinese dissident's daughter proud of her 'brave' father' (14/06/16) on BBC
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 Grace Gao bio Шаблон:Webarchive on Oslo Freedom Forum website
- ↑ B. Rogers, 'A year on, lawyer’s disappearance highlights China’s escalating human rights disaster' (13/08/18) on Hong Kong Free Press
- ↑ 'Taler Kina midt imot' (24/05/17) in Dagsavisen
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Grace Geng, 'Truth is power and I will keep speaking it until my father is free' Шаблон:Webarchive (03/10/16) for International Service for Human Rights
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 My Father Never Spoke About The Persecution He Suffered (17/06/16) on Radio Free Asia
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 7,3 7,4 7,5 'A Hero’s Daughter: The hard life of Grace Gao' (26/06/17) in the National Review
- ↑ 'China rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng ready for consequences over new book: Daughter' (14/06/16) in The Straits Times
- ↑ T. Branigan, 'Missing Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng reappears' (28/03/10) on The Guardian
- ↑ J. Kahn, 'Legal Gadfly Bites Hard, and Beijing Slaps Him' (13/12/05) on New York Times
- ↑ Amnesty International, 'China: Fear for safety/ death threats: Gao Zhisheng (M)' (19/01/06)
- ↑ 'Daughter of Chinese human rights lawyer promotes his book in Hong Kong (14/06/16) on The San Diego Union-Tribune
- ↑ M. Forsythe, 'Incendiary Memoir by Chinese Rights Lawyer Reaches Bookshelves Abroad' (14/06/16) on New York Times
- ↑ Mark Field MP (20/10/17) in answer to 'Gao Zhisheng:Written question - 108343'
- ↑ 'Will China allow rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng to seek medical help abroad?' (28/05/18) on South China Morning Post
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