From AFP, via Khaleej Times: A blind social activist who blew the whistle on an east China county, which forced villagers to undergo sterilisations and detained those who refused, has been badly beaten, sources said on Wednesday. Chen Guangcheng, 34, has been under house arrest since mid-August for speaking out against violations of family planning […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: For a blind man described by supporters as a “barefoot lawyer” for his work advising villagers fighting brutal population control measures in Shandong province, Chen Guangcheng has attracted the kind of official ire typically reserved for high-profile dissidents. During a two-week detention in a village in the city of Linyi, authorities […]
Read MoreAs a follow-up to Philip Pan’s article in the Washington Post today, and coverage of the arrest of activist Chen Guangcheng, see Xinhua’s Sept. 20 story: The national population and family planning agency on Monday said that an investigation has proven that reported population-control abuses by family planning officials in east Shandong Province are factual. […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Local authorities on Tuesday seized a rural activist who has been leading a high-profile legal campaign against the use of forced sterilization and abortion in China, apparently trying to prevent him from speaking about abuses in his hometown with senior government officials who had expressed support for his cause. The detention […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A crowd of disheveled villagers was waiting when Chen Guangcheng stepped out of the car. More women than men among them, a mix of desperation and hope on their faces, they ushered him along a dirt path and into a nearby house. Then, one after another, they told him about the […]
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