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3-Year Prison Term for Nephew of Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng
The nephew of exiled Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng was tried Friday and sentenced to three years and three months in prison on charges related to a clash...
Blind Legal Activist Chen Guangcheng Leaves U.S. Custody in Beijing, Heads to Hospital
On Wednesday, the day that senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, arrived in China for delicate economic talks beginning May 3,...
From New York, Chen Guangcheng Calls Attention to Rights Abuses in China
When blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng flew from Beijing to the United States earlier this month, some analysts in the Western and Chinese press...
Chen Guangcheng: Potential Study Abroad Deal May End Diplomatic Impasse with China
The blind legal activist who has been at the center of diplomatic struggle between the U.S. and China has been offered a fellowship to study at an American...
Brother of Chen Guangcheng Escapes House Arrest
The brother of blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng has escaped house arrest in their home village and traveled to Beijing to meet with a lawyer...
Blind Legal Activist Chen Guangcheng: “I Want My Family to Leave China”
Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal activist who left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing after sheltering there for the six days, says he now fears for his safety and...
Could Chen Guangcheng Be Allowed to Leave China?
For a blind man who managed to escape a security cordon around his home-turned-prison, it is perhaps no surprise that Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng‘s next...
Isolated in a Beijing Hospital, Blind Legal Activist Chen Guangcheng Pleads to Leave China
A cluster of journalists is crowded around Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing, desperate for a glimpse of blind legal activist Cheng Guangcheng. One of China’s most...
Chen Guangcheng: A Blind Man with Legal Vision
He may have lost his sight as a child, but Chen Guangcheng's legal vision has helped illuminate the plight of thousands of Chinese villagers. Last year officials...
And the Rebel of the Year Is …
GQ names blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng as the Rebel of the Year.
Exiled Activist to China’s New President: ‘The Whole Nation is Watching You’
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng on Monday posted a video urging incoming President Xi Jinping to uphold human rights and follow Burma on the path to democratic...
Must-Reads From Around the World, May 31, 2012
A Dissident Speaks - In an op-ed in The New York Times, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who is in New York after escaping house imprisonment in China’s...
Could Chen Be Allowed to Leave China to Study Abroad?
For a blind man who managed to escape a security cordon around his home-turned-prison, it is perhaps no surprise that Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's next...
What Chen Guangcheng Means for the Global Economy
Chinese human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng is a brave man who has taken on China’s brutal authoritarian government and suffered personally for it, but beyond...
Can Chen Guangcheng Find Justice in China?
For months he was simply known as “army coat.” The burly man clad in a green surplus military jacket was just another of the dozens of men who kept Chen...
Will Chen Guangcheng Be Allowed to Leave China? The Waiting Game Continues
And now the waiting game is on. Before leaving Beijing on May 5, visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave positive indications that Chinese legal...
Chen Guangcheng’s New York Home: A Soviet-Style Complex in Greenwich Village
The saga of the blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is one brimming with tragedy, drama and intrigue. But, upon his sudden arrival in New York City this...
The Chen Guangcheng Affair: U.S. Denies China Dissident’s Account of Coercion
U.S.officials and friends of Chen Guangcheng were stunned by reports Wednesday morning that the blind Chinese human rights activist said he was coerced into...
