All Videos Tagged persecution (iPeace.us) - iPeace.us2024-04-23T11:31:47Zhttps://ipeace.us/video/video/listTagged?tag=persecution&rss=yes&xn_auth=noThe Chinese Gandhi Gao Zhizhengtag:ipeace.us,2008-10-20:2217368:Video:3194972008-10-20T19:38:57.237ZWillem Amendthttps://ipeace.us/profile/WillemAmendt
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</a> <br></br>Self-trained lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s account comes from<br></br>
this “other China.”His is a tale of a Communist Party<br></br>
member who came from the poorest groups of Chinese<br></br>
society.He lost his father as a child and was dependent<br></br>
on the work of hismother, growing up in the hinterland<br></br>
of China in the 1960s and 70s in themidst of<br></br>
widespread poverty and deprivation. But Gao,…
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</a><br />Self-trained lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s account comes from<br />
this “other China.”His is a tale of a Communist Party<br />
member who came from the poorest groups of Chinese<br />
society.He lost his father as a child and was dependent<br />
on the work of hismother, growing up in the hinterland<br />
of China in the 1960s and 70s in themidst of<br />
widespread poverty and deprivation. But Gao, through<br />
hard work and dedication, was to enjoy at least some<br />
education, and during a period of work in Xinjiang<br />
Uyghur Autonomous Region, discovered a talent for<br />
law.He qualified as a lawyer in the 1990s, and started<br />
practicing on some of themost difficult, sensitive cases.<br />
His inspiration, originally, was the sight of injustices<br />
perpetrated in the work place where he was based in his