Chinese dissident lawyer's family defects - The Nation, March 12, 2009
...The wife and children of a top civil rights lawyer under close surveillance by the Chinese authorities have arrived in the United States after walking across the border to Thailand, Gao Zhisheng's wife Geng He said.
Geng said her daughter, 15, and son, 5, had suffered "great hardship" in China from living under virtual house arrest in their Beijing home...
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