Geng He (L), wife of Gao Zhisheng, speaks through her interpreter, Sherry Zhang, at a news conference at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, California August 7, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
BEIJING (Reuters) - China freed a prominent human rights lawyer after three years in prison on Thursday, his brother told Reuters, ending the latest period of detention for the religious-freedom campaigner whose treatment attracted international condemnation.
Gao Zhisheng, a Beijing-based lawyer, was held for almost three years from December 2011 at a remote prison in the far-western region of Xinjiang. He was accused of inciting subversion of state power, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
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