WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) Feb. 13, 2012 — “Bob” Xiqiu Fu, founder and president of China Aid Association, and the wife of imprisoned Chinese political dissident Guo Quan will testify before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Tuesday.

The two will testify at a hearing entitled “The Case and Treatment of Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng.”

Fu provided an excerpt of the testimony he will deliver Tuesday:

“Gao is a pioneer in China’s rights defense movement. Like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of the United States, Gao’s Christian faith and his ethical values have been the great spiritual motivator spurring him to defend the legal rights of the persecuted and the marginalized, and that faith and those values have given him the courage to make great sacrifices, even to the point of giving up his life, for this civil rights movement.”

He said King’s example has led to the emergence in China of a group of human rights lawyers who are fighting on the front lines for human rights, rule of law, and religious freedom.

Li Jing, wife of Guo Quan’s also provided an excerpt of her ttestimony:

“It is very important for the world community to raise the case of my husband, of Gao Zhisheng, of Chen Guangcheng and Liu Xiaobo–China must know that the world is united against the imprisonment of peaceful dissidents and rights defenders. But without U.S. leadership on human rights, few in Beijing will be listening.”