From Reuters via the New York Times: Chinese police detained prominent dissident Hu Jia on Thursday morning, his family said, adding to the list of human rights activists held or harassed by the country’s dissent-wary government. Hu was taken away by plain-clothes police early in the morning, his wife Zeng Jinyan told Reuters. She said […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A blind Chinese human rights activist whose jailing last month sparked an international outcry has filed an appeal, asserting authorities stifled his defense and apparently coerced witnesses into testifying against him. Chen Guangcheng attracted world attention last year after issuing a report that said officials in east China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese court jailed a blind human rights campaigner for four years and three months on Thursday, state media announced, prompting other activists to warn of a clampdown on China’s “rights defenders.” Chen Guangcheng, who was tried last Friday without his own lawyers present, drew international attention last year by accusing officials in […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Attorneys for a blind rights activist facing trial in eastern China appear to have been detained by police, another lawyer said on Thursday, the day before the scheduled start of the trial. Chen Guangcheng is due to face trial in Shandong province on Friday on charges of disrupting traffic and destroying property following […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A top U.S. diplomat said Thursday that she had urged Chinese officials to release a blind rural lawyer who was detained after exposing forced abortions and sterilizations in eastern China. Assistant Secretary of State Ellen R. Sauerbrey told reporters that she raised the case of Chen Guangcheng on the sidelines of […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The trial of a blind rural lawyer, charged in what rights activists say is a politically motivated case, was postponed Thursday, and a group of his supporters was assaulted by unknown assailants outside the courthouse. As many as 200 people traveled to China’s eastern Shandong province to support Chen Guangcheng, whose […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Only a few years ago, Chen Guangcheng, a blind man who taught himself the law, was hailed as a champion of peasant rights who symbolized China’s growing embrace of legal norms. Mr. Chen helped other people with disabilities avoid illegal fees and taxes. He forced a paper mill to stop […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: A Chinese lawyer who exposed a violent campaign of forced abortions and sterilisations by family planning officials in his home town is on trial this week after months under house arrest without charge. Chen Guangcheng, 35, has been detained on-and-off since August after highlighting the plight of women in Linyi, an area […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese civil rights campaigners called on the government on Thursday to free a blind rural activist, whose campaign against forced abortions attracted worldwide attention, and investigate reports of torture. Activist Chen Guangcheng, from Linyi city in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, will be tried next week on charges of disrupting traffic and […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: When a self-taught lawyer and activist named Chen Guangcheng went public with reports of forced abortions and other abuses by family-planning officials in China’s Shandong province, he became a local hero. He also became a state threat. Roughly a year later, despite international pressure, widespread support from lawyers and an […]
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