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DONGSHIGU, China -- With the checkpoints removed and the hired thugs and police gone, it is finally possible to enter the home village of blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
For 19 months, plainclothes guards had roughed up or chased away journalists and activists who tried to visit Chen. Then in the middle of the night last weekend – June 2, by most accounts -- the sentry huts at the front of the village were torn down and the rings of surveillance dismantled. News of the development, two weeks after Chen had flown to possible exile in the ...
WASHINGTON — Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist whose flight to the US embassy in Beijing sparked a major diplomatic incident, said Thursday that sanctions against his family are waning.
"The extraordinary official surveillance and restrictions imposed on my family members who remain in our home village reportedly have started to abate," Chen said in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.
"The county police have even begun to make amends, offering to pay my brother for some of the furniture they broke during the vengeful attack on his family after they discovered my ...
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For nearly two years, I was locked in my farmhouse by lawless thugs, unable to seek medical care and scarcely able to even imagine a day when I could feel the sun on my face again. In the month since my wife, children and I arrived in the United States from China, the extraordinary official surveillance and restrictions imposed on my family members who remain in our home village reportedly have started to abate. The county police have even begun to make amends, offering to pay my brother for some of the furniture they broke during the vengeful attack on his family after they ...
Chen Guangcheng's Family Under Attack - National Review Online (blog) The GuardianChen Guangcheng's Family Under AttackNational Review Online (blog)A little over a year ago, China's heroic blind lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, escaped from house arrest, eventually fleeing to the United States with his wife and child. The Chinese government is now retaliating against the members of his family who remain ...Chen Guangcheng brother claims government-hired thugs attacked himThe GuardianChen Guangcheng's Elder Brother Chen Guangfu Violently BeatenLifeNews.comChen Guangcheng's brother beaten in latest apparent revenge attack on familySouth China Morning PostWA today -Asahi Shimbun -News & Observerall 10 news articles »
China Accused of Denying Care to Dissident's Imprisoned Nephew - New York Times Christian Science MonitorChina Accused of Denying Care to Dissident's Imprisoned NephewNew York TimesBEIJING — Human rights advocates have accused the authorities in eastern China of denying urgent medical care to the jailed nephew of the blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, a move they say is aimed at punishing Mr. Chen for his continued ...Family of blind activist Chen Guangcheng 'tormented' in ChinaChristian Science MonitorChina Denies Chen Guangcheng's Jailed Nephew Medical CareHuman Rights FirstChina May Allow Chen Guangcheng's Nephew to Die From AppendicitisLifeNews.comShanghaiist -The Epoch Times -Voice of Americaall 14 news articles »
Brother of Chinese Activist, Chen Guangcheng, Beaten by "Hired Thugs" - New Tang Dynasty Television New Tang Dynasty TelevisionBrother of Chinese Activist, Chen Guangcheng, Beaten by "Hired Thugs"New Tang Dynasty TelevisionThe brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng was been beaten up in eastern Shandong province Thursday. Chen Guangfu says he believes the two men were thugs hired by authorities to continue the harassment against his family. In a telephone ...