Excerpted from Radio Netherlands Worldwide:

In the longer term, Sharon Hom of Human Rights in China is concerned that the harassment of rights defenders will increase as the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests nears.

"This is a process where rights defenders are picked up, released, harassed, beaten, and released. This is part of a pattern, but it's an intensifying one."

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For more information on this issue:

• “Family of Missing Rights Defense Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Arrives in U.S,” March 11, 2009
• Human Rights in China, “Torture Account by Missing Rights Defense Lawyer Gao Zhisheng,” February 8, 2009
• Joint statement by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Human Rights in China, “Human Rights Lawyer in Arbitrary Detention,” February 2, 2009
• Human Rights in China, “HRIC Statement on Gao Zhisheng's Sentence,” December 22, 2006
• Kerry Brown, "Review of Gao Zhisheng's A China More Just," China Rights Forum, 2008, no.1.

Gao Zhisheng’s account of his September 2007 kidnapping and torture:

• 黑夜、黑头套、黑帮绑架 (Chinese original)
• Dark Night, Dark Hood, and Kidnapping by Dark Mafia (English translation)