Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), chair and co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, called on China to release Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer who has been missing for seven years. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

(Tim SloanAFP/Getty Images)Uncertainty as to the whereabouts and health condition of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng still abounds.

The film is based on the true story of Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer who went missing from his home in northern China’s Shaanxi Province in August 2017 and hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

She was depressed after years of harassment by the police and missing her younger brother—lawyer Gao Zhisheng.

Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most renowned human rights lawyers, was kidnapped from his home in Shaanxi province on Aug. 13, 2017. It has been more than seven years since then, and there has not been any information about Gao’s whereabouts.

Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, in this file photo.

The report listed more than a dozen prominent prisoners of conscience who remain in Chinese jails, including Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, and Falun Gong practitioner Zhou Deyong.

However, Chinese lawyers are “not allowed to process Falun Gong cases,” according to Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng in an open letter to the United States Congress in 2007.

Zhisheng.

(Lisa Fan/The Epoch Times)WASHINGTON—The last few weeks have been tough for Geng He, wife of Gao Zhisheng, a celebrated Chinese civil rights lawyer whose case came to the public again on Jan. 11.

Gao is the thrice-nominated candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize (2007, 2008, 2010) whose work in the face of great personal danger has won him the sobriquet Conscience of China.

Gao Zhisheng, a renowned human rights lawyer who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times, has been missing since Aug. 13, 2017.

Gao Zhisheng in China, 2005, before the worst of his ordeals began.

Chinese human-rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has long defended activists and the civil rights of religious minorities, has been "disappeared" since 2017.

Geng (who will be speaking about her husband, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights attorney who went missing under Chinese leader Xi Jinping), Ms.

Calling for the release of Gao Zhisheng, a supporter attends a protest and holds a placard in Hong Kong in 2009.

Chris Smith (R-N.J.) (3rd L) greets President of the China Aid Association Bob Fu (4th L), Geng He (5th L), wife of Chinese human rights attorney and dissident Gao Zhisheng, Sophie Luo (6th L), wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, and President

After his arrest and disappearance on Feb. 4, 2009, the first report to surface was a statement by a policeman to his brother, Gao Zhiyi, that “Gao Zhisheng lost his way and went missing in September 2009.”

He noted that "today, we should especially remember and call out the name of Gao Zhisheng—whose fate in China remains unknown—for his courage in persisting and defending Falun Gong people in court." Mr.

A lawyers concern group call for the release of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng as they protest in Hong Kong on June 17, 2009.

The advertisement for Gao Zhisheng on Drudgereport.com (Drudge Report)On the one year anniversary of the abduction of renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, a human rights NGO in the U.S. has started a very public campaign for his release.With

China should follow Gao Zhisheng and Liu Xiaobo on a quick path to reform—becoming the largest country in an Asian common market.

(The Epoch Times) Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese human rights lawyer who agreed to assist in the investigation, soon had his law license revoked. He was arrested and tortured for 50 days in late 2006.

His Family and Supporters Hold Gao's Images and Signs "Looking for Gao Zhisheng,"  Provided to The Epoch Times.

We hope Gao can escape from the control of the Chinese communist regime and reunite with his family in the U.S.”‘Where did Gao Zhisheng do wrong?’Mr.

ALLEGEDLY FOUND: Gao Zhisheng, head of the Beijing-based Zhisheng Legal Office, is seen during an interview at his office in Beijing, in this file photo from Nov. 2, 2005. Gao, a human rights lawyer, has been missing since 2009.

(Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images) Concern for Gao Zhisheng Also on Wednesday, the Falun Gong Human Rights Lawyers Group sent out greetings to Gao Zhisheng, Jiang Tianyong, Wang Quanzhang, and all other Chinese human rights lawyers who have defended Falun

Zhisheng is finally free. 

The regime also suppresses many human rights lawyers, including Gao Zhisheng, who spoke out against the CCP's repression of Falun Gong.

CHINA'S CONSCIENCE: Gao Zhisheng is seen during an interview at his office in Beijing on Nov. 2, 2005.