The Human Rights Foundation (HRF), along with partners dedicated to artistic freedom, expresses deep concern over the arrest and arbitrary detention of Gao Zhen, a prominent contemporary Chinese artist and a member of the well-known Gao Brothers, a collaborative artist duo. In a letter to the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in New York and other embassies, we call for his unconditional release.
On Aug. 26, Gao was arrested and detained after 30 police officers conducted a raid on his studio in Yanjiao, a town in the small city of Sanhe, in the northern province of Hebei. He has been held since at the Sanhe City Detention Center on charges of “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs” — a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.
Read HRF’s letter below.
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