Standing up for human rights in China sometimes means giving up your own.
For the last seven years, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has repeatedly suffered house arrest, kidnapping, detainment and torture as punishment for defending the rights of persecuted religious groups and villagers whose land was illegally taken by the government.
A Christian lawyer and one of China’s most prominent dissidents, Gao, 47, is now being held in a remote prison in China’s far-western province of Xinjiang.