From the International Herald Tribune:
One November morning, the Beijing Judicial Bureau convened a hearing on its decree that one of China’s best-known law firms must shut down for a year because it failed to file a change of address form when it moved offices.
The same morning, Gao Zhisheng, the law firm’s founder and star litigator, was 2,900 kilometers, or 1,800 miles, away in the remote western region of Xinjiang. He skipped what he called the “absurd and corrupt” hearing so he could rally members of an underground Christian church to sue China’s secret police.
Read an open letter by Gao and two other lawyers calling for the rule of law in China.
