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BEIJING (AP) - Security officials forced a high-profile lawyer out of Beijing in an effort to isolate him before an American legal group honored him in absentia for his civil rights work, a fellow activist said Sunday.
Gao Zhisheng was taken from his Beijing home on June 24 to an unknown location outside the city, his friend and fellow activist Hu Jia said. Hu said he received a phone call from Gao on Saturday.
No one answered at the phone Sunday at the Beijing Public Security Bureau, the agency that Hu said he believed was responsible for sending Gao out of the city.
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