📖 #GaoZhen has the right to freedom of artistic expression. The use of a contrived, retroactively applied law and a closed trial underscores serious due process violations.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
🚨Today a court in #Hebei #China "tried" artist #GaoZhen in secret, but didn't hand down a verdict. Why? Because the authorities haven't reached a political conclusion about what do with Gao or his equally arbitrarily exit-banned family.
www.nchrd.org/2026/03/chin... @chrdnet.bsky.social
🚨Hebei court to try artist #GaoZhen on March 30. Detained since August 2024 for exercising his right to artistic freedom. 🇨🇳 authorities deem the #GaoBrothers’ statues critical of #MaoZedong “insulting” and use a retroactively applied law to indict him.
👉 www.nchrd.org/2026/03/chin...
🇨🇳 court to try detained artist #GaoZhen on March 30 under a retroactive application of the law, behind closed doors, with his family barred from attending.
👉 www.nchrd.org/2026/03/chin...
JUST IN❗
Sanhe City Court has issued a pre-trial hearing notice in the case of #GaoZhen. The hearing is scheduled for 24 March at 9:00 AM.
Gao has been held in continuous detention since August 2024. We call for his immediate and unconditional release.
🇨🇳 police detained artist #GaoZhen on Aug 26, 2024 in Yanjiao, Hebei. He now faces charges under a 2021 law for artworks created in 2005–2009 — a retroactive application. Authorities should drop the charges and #FreeGaoZhen.
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🔴 BREAKING: A Hebei court has postponed the trial of detained artist #GaoZhen for the third time, now to June 10, 2026. He is being prosecuted simply for exercising his right to artistic expression.
#FreeGaoZhen
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🔴 Hebei authorities rejected bail for artist #GaoZhen. Procuratorate recommends 3-yr sentence, trial postponed to March 10, 2026. The 69-year-old #US permanent resident, detained since Aug 2024, faces charges over art created before the law existed.
via wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/12/2026...
The 🇨🇳 govt appears to be detaining #DuBin and #GaoZhen solely for their critical cultural expression, in violation of their rights to #FreedomOfExpression and to a #FairTrial. They should not spend a day behind bars.
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#GaoZhen wird in #China wegen seiner maokritischen Kunstwerke vor Gericht gestellt, berichtet die @tagesschau.bsky.social:
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#Gezondheid #Chinese #kunstenaar in #gevaar
Al #jaar #vast voor ‘beledigend’ #kunstwerk
#Roep de #Chinese #autoriteiten op om #GaoZhen #onmiddellijk #vrij te laten.
@amnestynl.bsky.social
www.amnesty.nl/forms/pet-ch...
The only humane and responsible thing for the Chinese government to do: Release detained artist #GaoZhen and all prisoners of conscience suffering from illnesses immediately.
A public letter calls for artist #GaoZhen ’s immediate release from detention in #China, where his health has critically deteriorated—he is now bedridden and at high risk of stroke.
He has remained in pre-trial detention for more than 400 days.
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#China 's beroemde kunstenaar #GaoZhen zit al één jaar onterecht vast zonder enige rechtszaak. De autoriteiten zeggen dat hij een 'volksheld zou hebben beledigd' omdat hij een beeld maakte van #MaoZedong, maar #kunst maken is geen misdrijf. Teken a.u.b. de protestmail! www.amnesty.nl/forms/email-...
@Chinamission2un @MFA_China @SpokespersonCHN
What counts as "slandering China’s heroes and martyrs"?
According to #China: freedom of artistic expression and creation.
Call on the government to release detained artist #GaoZhen now!
#FreeGaoZhen
www.amnesty.ch/fr/participe...
@Chinamission2un @MFA_China @SpokespersonCHN
Artist #GaoZhen was arrested a year ago and charged with "slandering China’s heroes and martyrs" a charge used as a tool to silence the artistic and intellectual expression of Chinese artists #China must release him now! #FreeGaoZhen
Artist #GaoZhen is being charged with “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”, a charge used as a tool to silence the artistic and intellectual expression of Chinese artists.
#China must release him now! #FreeGaoZhen
www.amnesty.ch/de/mitmachen...
What counts as “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”? According to #China: freedom of artistic expression and creation.
Call on the government to release detained artist #GaoZhen now! #FreeGaoZhen
www.amnesty.ch/de/mitmachen...
What counts as “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”? According to #China: freedom of artistic expression and creation.
Call on the government to release detained artist #GaoZhen now! #FreeGaoZhen
www.amnesty.ch/de/mitmachen...
Artist #GaoZhen is being charged with “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”, a charge used as a tool to silence the artistic and intellectual expression of Chinese artists.
#China must release him now! #FreeGaoZhen
www.amnesty.ch/de/mitmachen...
Index joins @hrf.org and other organisations in an open letter calling for the immediate release of artist #GaoZhen in #China. Gao Zhen was arrested on 26 Aug and is being held on charges of "slandering China's heroes and martyrs": hrf.org/letter-deman... @artistsatrisk.bsky.social
🇨🇳 Die Behörden in #China haben den international bekannten Künstler #GaoZhen festgenommen - weil seine gut zehn Jahre alten Mao-Skulpturen nun als Verunglimpfung der Kommunistischen Revolution gelten. Das belegt die Willkür des chinesischen Rechtssystems
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