Gao Zhisheng, the human rights lawyer who has been missing for over a year, appears to be alive and is currently staying
at a sacred Buddhist mountain in northern China, his close friends said yesterday.
"I spoke to Gao this afternoon," Li Heping, a friend and fellow lawyer, said.
"He is in Wutaishan [in Shanxi province] but he would not say his exact location. I asked him what his situation was like, how his health was, and he said 'good'."
Gao is a former Communist Party member who angered authorities by taking on rights cases targeting the government. His fate became a mystery and a topic of global concern after police took him from his home last year.