Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng

• China pressured New York university to make me leave: Chen Guangcheng

  Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University, accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure" from China.

• 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, 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.

• Brother of blind Chinese dissident escapes village

  The older brother of the blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, who triggered a diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington has escaped his heavily guarded home and arrived in the capital Thursday, a rights lawyer said.

• 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.

• 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...

• US Vice President Joe Biden says Chen's future is in United States

  US Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday that the United States was ready to give blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng a visa "right away" and warned that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney would be weak on the international stage.

• Dissident Chen tells China of abuse: US

  Dissident Chen Guangcheng, at the heart of a crisis between the United States and China, gave an account to Chinese authorities about abuse under house arrest, a US official said on Friday.

• 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.

• Beijing says dissident can apply to study outside China

  The announcement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry follows a dramatic and very public appeal by Chen, who spoke by phone to a US congressional hearing on his case, asking to be allowed to spend some time in the United States.

• US ready to help Chinese activist: official

  The United States is ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he has changed his decision to leave US protection and wants to leave into exile, a senior US official said on Thursday.