Old Catholic Church Gathers Support for Chinese Lawyer After Communist Party Close Christian Law Pr

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.