Gao Zhen, Chinese Artist Detained for "Defaming" Mao, Looks Ahead to Trial

Gao Zhen, Chinese Artist Detained for "Defaming" Mao, Looks Ahead to Trial

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 hired a leading human rights lawyer to represent him in court after refusing to plead guilty and accept a three-year prison sentence.  Sources close to the case told Hyperallergic that Mo Shaoping, one of China’s most eminent defense lawyers who repres…