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China Digital Times
April 14, 2018
(U.S.-based legal activist Chen Guangcheng has written elsewhere about the "divide and conquer" strategy behind the broadcasts.) Rights lawyer Lin Qilei is quoted warning against blaming the victims, saying that "if we make a moral judgment on the 'confessor' and accept the 'confession,' then we have [Ãâà...
OZY
April 11, 2018
But in 2012, he convinced the Chinese government to let activist Chen Guangcheng go, after he took shelter in the U.S. embassy in Beijing and sought safe passage to America. “Nobody in China knew how to deal with the Trump administration,” says Yun Sun, director of the China program at the StimsonÃâà...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 25, 2018
Whether he knew it or not, he was echoing Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who's described the proposed agreement precisely as a “deal with the Devil,” saying, “This will be a shame in Catholic history that can never be washed away.” Retired Cardinal Joseph Zen has spoken in similarlyÃâà...
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
March 10, 2018
2012 was the year Chen Guangcheng, a blind, dissident lawyer, managed to escape Beijing for the U.S. It was the year a prominent party chief in western China, Bo Xilai, and his wife became embroiled in a scandal involving the murder of a British businessman, and fell from power. Online, Chinese peopleÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 10, 2018
Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie. Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has been a law scholar in the United States since his daring midnight flight from his heavily guarded hometown in Shandong's Yinan county in 2012 ended years of incarceration, official harassment and house arrest.
HPPR
February 28, 2018
Chen Guangcheng, "a blind legal activist and inspirational figure in China's rights movement," has escaped from house arrest and is at secret location in Beijing, The Associated Press reports.
The Verge
February 28, 2018
Since the news was first announced, security experts, lawyers, activists like China's Chen Guangcheng, and multiple nonprofit organizations have all weighed in to point out the potential security risks. Experts say the move could force Apple to obey various government requests to access Chinese iCloudÃâà...
New York Times
January 23, 2018
Apple is selling out. It's not about the latest version of the iPhone, but the huge cache of personal data that will be going directly to the largest, and one of the harshest, authoritarian regimes in the world: the Communist government of China. Given the Chinese government's continuing crackdown on humanÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
October 31, 2017
TOKYO -- Chinese blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who famously escaped house arrest in 2012 and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and subsequently moved to the U.S., has urged Japan to get more involved in resolving what he calls a "worsening" human rights situation in his native country.
New York Times
July 3, 2017
One of my countrymen, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been imprisoned for eight years for the crime of drafting Charter 08, a political manifesto calling for democracy in China. Now, the 61-year-old intellectual and literary critic has liver cancer — and the Chinese authorities are refusing toÃâà...
Hong Kong Free Press
December 31, 1999
By Oiwan Lam. Communities in rural China are facing a new generation of surveillance technology that interconnects citizens' everyday activities and interests with their government's ever-growing appetite for monitoring its population.
HPPR
December 31, 1999
Chen Guangcheng, "a blind legal activist and inspirational figure in China's rights movement," has escaped from house arrest and is at secret location in Beijing, The Associated Press reports.
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