One year ago today, Gao Zhisheng was “disappeared.” He is the Chinese human-rights lawyer who, in his life, has endured a great deal to bring a touch of decency to China, and to let the broad world know of the depredations of the ruling Communists. On February 4, 2009, they snatched him, and just disappeared him. As I noted in a column last week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry was recently asked about him. Its spokesman said he “is where he should be.” And where may that be? A dungeon? A grave?

There is a website called Free Gao: here. And to read a letter his wife sent to Congress last April, go here. It does not make for easy reading — but, in my view, it makes for important reading. Gao Zhisheng is one of the great men in the world today, and should not be forgotten, especially by the United States.