NPC Newsmaker Program: Wife of Renowned Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng To Plead For International Support for his Release to the U.S.

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Sep 05, 2014, 11:46 ET

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The wife of renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng will make a public appeal for her husband's release to the United States at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Tuesday, September 9. He was released from prison on August 7 and his now staying with his wife's sister in Xinjiang, under house arrest, and is being denied access to medical care.

Geng He will reveal previously unknown details of the torture her husband suffered at the hands of Chinese security officials during his four years of imprisonment. She will also ask the Chinese government and the international community to allow him to travel to California, where Geng He and their two children live, on an extraordinary humanitarian basis.

Appearing with Geng He will be their international lawyer Jared Genser and Human Rights Watch's China Director Sophie Richardson.

This NPC Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for Tuesday September 9 at 10 a.m. in the club's Zenger Room, on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, Washington DC 20045.

Like all Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed press and NPC club members, free of charge. No advance registration is required.

Contact:
Tony Gallo, NPC Newsmakers Event Host
202 -544-6973, [email protected]

Herb Perone, NPC Newsmakers Chairman
301-512-7636, [email protected]

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SOURCE National Press Club