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To Serve People: Chen Guangcheng vs. The Global Times (Full Fury Unleashing...
A weekly column in which Chinese media is taken to the stocks. By TAR Nation I thought I would do a Chen-free column this week, but the Global Times didn’t let me. On a political level, this is what...
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Yishus: The Aesthetics Of Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangcheng may be leaving China soon, as passports are expected to be issued to his family “within 15 days,” he said, according to the Telegraph. At least one BJC contributor is sad to see him...
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News Of The Weekend: Chen Guangcheng In New York
Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York on Saturday. The bow-tied man in the above screen capture from this video is Jerome Cohen, Chinese law expert at New York University, who shepherded Chen through...
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As If We Needed More Proof Of Dongshigu Officials’ Incompetence, Chen...
David Gray / REUTERS Here’s Tania Branigan of the Guardian: The brother of the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his family’s captors in a second audacious escape from their village in eastern...
View ArticleChen Guangcheng Speaks To Anderson Cooper For His First Television Interview
CGC: “I want to correct one thing here. When we talk about my situation in the future, let’s not use the word ‘house arrest,’ but instead let’s use the term ‘illegal detention.’ …My suffering was...
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Chen Guangcheng’s Nephew, Chen Kegui, May Be Prosecuted Soon
Dongshigu Village, Linyi, Shandong province (AFP) Remember how, during the saga of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, authorities resorted to the basest means to intimidate and punish him? You’ll surely...
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Chen Guangcheng Joins Rihanna, Usain Bolt As GQ Honoree, For “Rebel Of The Year”
A little more than six months ago, Chen Guangcheng was lost. Maybe not literally — though there’s a chance that’s true as well, a blind lawyer-activist fleeing through the woods of Linyi in Shandong...
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Chen Kegui’s 39-Month Prison Sentence Is The Shame Of This Country
Chen Kegui, nephew of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, was sentenced to 39 months in jail for his role in fighting back hired thugs and local officials who had broken into his home on April 27. The man...
View ArticleChen Guangcheng, In Video Address To Observe World Human Rights Day, Calls...
Chen Guangcheng, in a measured, carefully scripted nine-and-a-half minute speech that was just released on YouTube, name-drops two dozen activists and dissidents while calling on world leaders to...
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Chen Guangcheng Receives Lantos Human Rights Prize, Speaks At Washington...
On Tuesday night, Chen Guangcheng received the Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize in Washington DC and delivered a 22-minute speech that was greeted with a standing ovation. Speaking at the National...
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Chen Guangcheng’s Brother Says His House Is Being Besieged By Rocks, Bottles,...
Authorities still don’t get it. It’s over. Chen Guangcheng is gone. He’s in the hands of overseas activists now, and hasn’t said a thing that was new or interesting since winning the Lantos Human...
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Chen Guangcheng Is Being Asked To Leave NYU, And We Should All Be Okay With That
Last May, lawyer-activist Chen Guangcheng was a media darling and international hero. His dramatic escape from the village of Dongshigu, where he was held under house arrest, made headlines around the...
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Jerome Cohen And Others Respond To Chen Guangcheng, More Sternly
Regarding Chen Guangcheng’s exit from NYU, we acknowledge that there’s a chance he and his camp know something the rest of us don’t. Yet if there is evidence of coercion from Beijing, neither Chen nor...
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Spyware Detected On iPhone And iPad Given To Chen Guangcheng
The Chen Guangcheng saga sags deeper into a marsh of disappointment and sadness every day. The latest news, reported by Reuters, is that spyware was found on his phone and tablet, given to him by his...
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Chen Guangcheng Meets Media In Taiwan, Refuses To Talk About NYU
Chen Guangcheng, who is in Taipei right now as part of an 18-day trip to meet with politicans and human rights activists, spoke to media on Monday but notably refused to follow-up on his claim that...
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