It has been a little over a year since blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest and made his way to America. The 41-year-old self-taught lawyer is settling in, studying at New York University and learning English. Show More Summary
by Peter Baklinski SHANDONG PROVINCE, China, May 1, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Chen Guangcheng escaped communist clutches nearly a year ago, Chinese officials are still punishing him for spotlighting the country’s brutal enforcement of its one-child policy through the continual torture and terrorization…
The family of Chen Guangcheng, the campaigner against forced abortions, has been facing death threats and significant harassment. In late April 2012, Chen scaled the back wall of his compound and eluded the frustrated grasp of the Chinese Communist security machine and family planning officials. As though to punish him on the anniversary of his [...]
The family of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has received death threats. Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, unveiled the news at a press conference today on Capitol Hill. Congressman Chris Smith joined Littlejohn and members of the Coalition Against Gendercide to talk about forced abortions in China. “We have just learned that [...]
by Olivia Enos WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2013 (Heritage Foundation) - Human rights advocates stressed the importance of U.S. leadership in fighting violations of liberty in China in testimony before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee in advance of Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip to Beijing.…
by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chen Guangcheng escaped his imprisonment nearly a year ago, but Chinese Communist officials are still punishing him and his family, he told a Congressional subcommittee yesterday. The blind activist and lawyer demanded the United States open…
Chen Guangcheng, the activist who exposed massive forced abortion campaigns carried out by Chinese family planning officials, will testify today in front of Congress for the first time. Chen, who won his freedom in a daring night-time escape from Chinese secret police in 2012, will testify in person for the first time before Chairman Chris [...]
by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., April 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the most public foe of China's forced abortion policy, will speak before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights tomorrow. The hearing,…
Yesterday, President George W. Bush met with human rights activist Chen Guangcheng his wife Yuan Weijing, and their son and daughter at his private club at the Bush Institute. Before the event, Chen and his family were honored at ChinaAid’s annual banquet, where he received the 2013 “Defender of Freedom Award.” Chen also participated in [...]
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng spoke about his continued fight for human rights and freedom in China during a half-hour live chat co-hosted by ChinaAid and The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday.
ChinaAid and The George W. Bush Institute are co-hosting a live online chat with blind Chinese lawyer and human rights activist Chen Guangcheng about freedom and the rule of law on Wednesday April 3. Chen’s one-hour live discussion will be with Ambassador Jim Glassman, founding executive director of The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas. [...]
The Chinese anti-forced abortion legal activist, Chen Guangcheng, made international headlines last year when he escaped house arrest and fled to the United States Embassy in Beijing—this despite being legally blind. Chen was allowed to leave the country to the USA, but the Chinese government retaliated against his family, particularly his nephew Chen Kegui. Many [...]
Chen Guangcheng, the human rights advocate who escaped China after years of human rights abuses against him following his expose of massive forced abortion campaigns, may be enjoying a peaceful life in the United States. But a new report in the New York Times profiling his family shows it still faces significant persecution from the [...]
When China’s blind dissident, Chen Guangcheng, escaped from house arrest last year, angry Chinese leaders were sure the U.S. had somehow helped him. Well, they were wrong. Someone helped him, all right—but the help came from another Source. I learned the details of Chen’s remarkable rescue from my friend, Reggie Littlejohn, founder of Women’s Rights [...]
by Eric Metaxas March 4, 2013 (Breakpoint.org) - When China's blind dissident, Chen Guangcheng, escaped from house arrest last year, angry Chinese leaders were sure the U.S. had somehow helped him. Well, they were wrong. Someone helped him, all right—but the help came from another Source. I learned the details…
Chen Guangcheng is the blind civil rights advocate from rural China who escaped house arrest in April 2012 and fled to the U.S. Embassy in...
With the single exception of granting asylum to the blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the Obama administration's record on Christian persecution in China has been one largely of indifference.
Chen Guangcheng is often referred to in the press as a "Chinese dissident," but he does not seek the overthrow of the CCP. He rather wants to see the Party live by its own rulebook.
The 2012 George Polk Award for Television News Reporting was bestowed today on CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley for its coverage of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. CBS News correspondent Holly Williams, who is fluent in Mandarin, reported in May on Chen’s escape to the U.S. Show More Summary
by Dean Cheng WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2013, (Heritage Foundation) - The Heritage Foundation had the honor of hosting noted Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng on January 30. He made several observations regarding the state of human rights in China. In Washington to accept an award from the Lantos…