Dongshigu is a village that the Chinese authorities would like the outside world to ignore. This community of 400 farmers is located in Shandong province, the origin of the Confucian ethical code that has dominated the nation’s morals for more than 2,000 years. But it is now the site of one of China’s most glaring injustices – a scandal that has shamed the local government and raised doubts about Beijing’s ability to enforce the rule of law.
This is the home and prison of Chen Guangcheng, a blind civil rights activist, who has been kept under house arrest for more than four months because he attempted to expose the dark side of China’s one-child policy. There has been no formal arrest, no charge and no trial. But the disabled peasant’s two-storey courtyard residence is under 24-hour siege by more than a dozen plainclothes guards led by communist cadres and supported by police.
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