Chen Kegui, nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, is being tried in a Chinese court for assaulting local officials who were looking for his uncle. Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest earlier this year and then took refuge at the US embassy in Beijing. After he fled, his relatives’ homes were raided and his nephew, Chen [...]
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has arrived in New York with his family to begin a new life in the United States. The blind human rights lawyer caused a diplomatic crisis when he escaped house arrest to arrive at the US embassy in Beijing last month. Speaking outside New York University, where he has been offered [...]
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with Washington, is on his way to the United States. The blind activist and his family boarded a flight to Newark, near New York, after being taken from a Beijing hospital to the capital’s airport. Chen Guangcheng recently spent six days in [...]
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he and his family have completed passport applications and officials say they should be ready within 15 days. The blind activist said officials had helped him fill in the forms on Wednesday at the Beijing hospital where he is staying. Chen Guangcheng spent six days in the US embassy last [...]
China says activist Chen Guangcheng can apply to study abroad, potentially indicating a way out of the diplomatic crisis with the US over him. A Chinese foreign ministry statement said Chen Guangcheng could “apply through normal channels in accordance with the law”. The blind dissident fled house arrest last month and spent six days inside [...]
Activist Chen Guangcheng has phoned a US Congressional hearing to plead for help in his attempts to leave China with his family. Chen Guangcheng said he feared for the safety of his family and wanted to meet visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton face-to-face. The dissident is in a Beijing hospital sealed off by [...]
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he has been unable to meet US officials to discuss his desire to leave the country. The blind dissident, in hospital in Beijing, says he believes Chinese officials were preventing US envoys from visiting him on Thursday. After he escaped house arrest last week, Chen Guangcheng spent six days in [...]
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing, a week after seeking shelter following his escape from house arrest. State news agency Xinhua said Chen Guangcheng left “of his own volition”. He is having a check-up at a Beijing hospital. His lawyer said he was “happy” and “free”. The announcement came as [...]
New reports say Chinese authorities have begun to round up relatives and associates of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled from house arrest last week. Several people involved in Chen Guangcheng’s escape have been detained or have disappeared in recent days, and fellow activist Hu Jia is being questioned. Chen Guangcheng, 41, is believed to [...]
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is in the US embassy in Beijing following his dramatic escape from house arrest, said activist Hu Jia. Hu Jia said Chen Guangcheng had scaled a high wall and was driven hundreds of kilometres to Beijing. Other, unconfirmed, reports say Chen Guangcheng is under “US protection” while talks take place [...]
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer and one of China’s best known dissidents, has escaped from the house arrest. Rights activists say Chen Guangcheng slipped out of his home in Dongshigu town in Shandong province on Sunday. Chen Guangcheng’s exact whereabouts cannot be verified at the moment but human rights campaigners said they believe he has [...]
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