Legal Group Calls for Obama to Assist Chinese Lawyer Gao Zhisheng

The American Board of Trial Advocates wrote a letter to U.S. President Obama recently, asking that he urge Chinese leader Xi Jinping to allow the rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng to leave China for medical treatment and to reunite with his family.
Legal Group Calls for Obama to Assist Chinese Lawyer Gao Zhisheng
Geng He, the wife of Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, participates in a press conference on Jan. 18, 2011, in Washington, DC. The American Board of Trial Advocates wrote a letter to U.S. President Obama on Monday, calling on him to help bring the Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng to the United States for medical treatment and uniting with his family. (Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images)
9/25/2014
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9/25/2014