Chinese Legal Activist

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  Detained China Human Rights Lawyer 'Confesses': Report

  A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer has "confessed guilt" a week after being detained in a massive crackdown on legal activists, China's state-run media said.

• Chen Guang-who? Chinese official claims ignorance of blind activist

  Despite causing a huge diplomatic incident between the world's two largest economies earlier this year, the Chinese official in charge of the hometown of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng said on Friday that he has no idea who he was.

• 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.

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  Zuckerberg's dog angers Chinese blogger

  Chinese blogger and activist Michael Anti wants to know why he is less worthy of a Facebook account than company founder Mark Zuckerberg's dog.Anti, a popular online commentator whose legal name is Zhao Jing, said in an interview on Tuesday...

• Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US

  A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country has arrived in the United States. Chen Guangcheng was accompanied by his wife and two children Saturday evening at Newark Liberty International Airport, outside New York City. He had been hurriedly taken from a Chinese hospital hours earlier and put on a plane after autho...

• 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.

• 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...

• Blind Chinese activist flees house arrest

  A blind legal activist fled house arrest in his rural China village and made it to a secret location in Beijing on Friday, setting off a frantic police search for him and those who helped him, activists said.

• Chinese police may have power to disappear people

  China is preparing to overhaul a key criminal law amid public confusion - and some dread - over whether the government is about to give police the legal authority to disappear people. At issue is an amendment to the criminal procedure law that would allow police to secretly detain suspects for months without informing their families. The effect wou...