China Blind Activist

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  Vote For Trump To Stop China's "Aggression": Chinese Human Rights Activist

  The Communist Party of China is an "enemy" of humanity and is terrorising its own people, a blind Chinese human rights activist has said, urging other countries to join US President Donald Trump to stop China's "aggression".

• Brother of blind Chinese activist says he was beaten up

  The eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said he was beaten up on Thursday by two men he said were government-hired thugs, which would mark a sharp escalation in harassment meted out to Chen's family.

• China dissident's brother says home attacked with dead poultry, bottles

  Security personnel in eastern China are carrying out a nightly harassment campaign against the brother of blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the two said on Tuesday, throwing rocks, bottles and dead poultry at his house for 12 nights in a row.

• Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's family faces threats in China

  A brother of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said Wednesday that the family faces official persecution and threats despite assurances that they would be treated in accordance to Chinese law when the activist was allowed to leave the country after escaping from house arrest.

• Blind Chinese activist's brother sues police for barging into home

  The eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said on Wednesday he is suing the police and the local government that oversees his village in northeastern China for barging into his house unlawfully after his brother's escape.

• Blind Chinese activist to visit China's rival Taiwan

  Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose escape from house arrest sparked a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington, accepted an invitation on Friday to visit Taiwan, underscoring his drive to ensure his influence as a human rights campaigner will continue abroad.

• Blind Chinese activist, now in US, seeks book deal

  Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is planning to write a book about his life and his quest for human rights in his native country. Mr Chen has three goals, spokesman Matt Dorf said on Thursday: to spread his message for greater freedom in China, to help support his family and to raise money to contribute to human rights organizations.

• Diplomatic standoff ends; Chinese dissident heads to US

  A blind Chinese legal activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital and put on a plane for the United States on Saturday, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

• China 'bars' blind dissident's family choice of lawyers

  The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a case that has focused world attention on China's human rights.

• Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to get passport 'within 15 days'

  Blind activist Chen Guangcheng said on Thursday that China had agreed to issue him a passport within 15 days, allowing him to go to the United States, after a bitter row between Beijing and Washington.

• Blind activist confident China will allow him to leave

  Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States, said he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas. Under still-evolving arrangements announced on Friday by Washington and Beijing, Mr Chen may be able to leave to study in the United...

• China dissident's escape "more exciting than Shawshank Redemption"

  The woman who drove blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to Beijing after his dramatic escape from house arrest in eastern China told how she sat down with security officers afterwards to watch the jailbreak movie, "The Shawshank Redemption". He Peirong said that five days after picking up Chen, she was taken from her home in Nanjing by state sec...

• China indicates will allow activist to leave soon: US

  The United States said on Friday that China had indicated it would let blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family leave the country soon, raising hopes of a resolution to a damaging diplomatic crisis.

• Blind activist wants to leave China 'on Clinton's plane'

  Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist at the centre of a diplomatic row, has said he wants to leave China on US Secretary of state Hillary Clinton's plane, a report said Thursday.

• Blind Chinese activist wants to leave China, fears for family's safety

  Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he now fears for his family's safety, and wants to leave the country. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on today, he told The Associated Press that US officials informed him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy.