Outspoken veteran journalist Gao Yu is currently under round-the-clock surveillance by China’s state security police, who recently took her on a forced “vacation” in the southwestern province of Yunnan, a friend of hers told RFA on Thursday. Gao Yu, 71, who has been permitted to serve a five-year jail term “outside jail,” holds a valid German visa but has been denied permission by the Chinese authorities to seek medical treatment overseas. Gao’s seven-year jail term for “leaking state secrets overseas” was cut on appeal to five years by the Beijing High People’s Court last November after she reportedly suffered multiple heart attacks in detention. She also suffers from high blood pressure and has signs of a growth on a lymph node that could be malignant, her lawyers said in her applications for medical parole before her release. Gao’s friend, author Xu Hui, said he and Beijing rights activist Wang Lihong had met with Gao recently in the mountain resort town of Dali.
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