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BEIJING -- More than a year and a half after prominent civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng disappeared, China's government gave the first sign Friday that he is alive, saying he would be sent to prison for three years for violating his probation.A brief report by the state-run Xinhua News Agency did not answer key questions about Gao -- the condition of his health and his whereabouts now and in the 20 months since he disappeared, presumably at the hands of the authorities."Are they sending him to a proper prison? Which prison was he at before? Where were they hiding him?" said Gao's brother, Gao Zhiyi, who has been on a quest to find his sibling.Gao's wife said from the United States she was still uneasy because of the lack of information."When I heard what they said, all I could think was 'Oh, it means he's still alive,"' Geng He said, crying, in a phone interview with The Associated Press.Charismatic and pugnacious, Gao was a galvanizing figure for the rights