Gao Zhen is being retroactively punished for 15 year-old-works, in a case that has alarmed rights groups.
The artworks, which were created in the early 2000s and critique the Cultural Revolution, are suspected of breaking a 2018 law. Gao Brothers, Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's ...
Gao Zhen, a Chinese dissident artist and half of the Gao Brothers duo, was detained on August 26 while visiting family in the Hubei province in China for violating a law that prohibits mocking heroes ...
Artist and Gao Brothers member Gao Zhen, who has been held in a Chinese detention center for nearly a year on accusations of violating the country’s infamously repressive anti-defamation laws, has ...
The Chinese government’s recent detentions of two outspoken critics—visual artist Gao Zhen and citizen journalist Zhang Zhan—highlight the continuing suppression of free speech and the shrinking space ...
Dissident Chinese artist Gao Zhen, internationally known for his provocative sculptures of Mao Zedong, was arrested during his visit to China from the US, his brother said. Gao Zhen, 68, was arrested ...
GENEVA, April 15 - The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday said it was concerned by the trial of Chinese ...
The U.N. human rights office voiced concerns about the trial of Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, known for satirical sculptures of Mao Zedong. Gao, facing charges of slandering national heroes, ...