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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
Those outside of China know him as Chen Guangcheng , the sightless and self-trained lawyer whose crusade for individual rights has led him to confinement, escape and now, an international diplomatic incident. Ordinary people inside China refer to him...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Chen, who is blind, is a human rights activist who escaped house arrest last week and sought refuge for six days at the American embassy. When Chen left the embassy on Wednesday and entered a hospital for treatment of a broken foot, US officials...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
The United States recognised that the blind dissident lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, had changed his position and now wanted to leave China, a senior Obama administration official said on Thursday. His apparent reversal injected new uncertainty into a...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com In a dramatic appeal, the Chinese dissident at the center of an international firestorm addressed a Capitol Hill committee over an iPhone Thursday and -- according to the translator -- asked for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's help...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng made a dramatic plea for help in a cellphone call to a U.S. congressional hearing from his hospital bed in Beijing, raising the pressure on President Barack Obama over his administration's handling of the case.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China Thursday to protect human rights, saying "no nation can or should deny those rights." Clinton, speaking in Beijing, where she arrived for U.S.-China talks, did not mention the blind Chinese activist who...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
A White House spokesman said Thursday if Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng wants U.S. political asylum, it's up to the State Department. "Obviously, the situation is evolving, so I don't have any comment on the details of discussions that are ongoing...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney on Thursday issued a sharply worded critique of the Obama administration's handling of the case of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, saying he was troubled by news reports that Chen felt pressure to leave the U.S. Embassy in Beijing at a...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Editorial Issuing predictions is a mug's game, but it's safe to make one forecast about the unfolding saga of Chen Guangcheng : it will not be resolved to everyone's satisfaction...Either the blind Chinese activist lawyer and his family will be hard...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Romney questioned whether the US government's concern about maintaining good relations with Beijing had trumped its commitment to human rights. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP The Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney has stirred the controversy...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
China's Chen Guangcheng phones US Congress for help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has telephoned a US Congressional hearing to plead for help in his attempts to leave China with his family. Mr Chen said he feared for the safety of his family and...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney assailed the Obama administration for its handling of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's attempted defection, building on his stance that Obama has not pressed China enough on human rights abuses. Share This Story Chen, a prominent...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Ambassador to China Gary Locke in a car on the way to a hospital in Beijing, May 2, 2012. U.S. officials say they are trying to meet again with Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who is now appealing for asylum in the United States after leaving the...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney said Thursday the Obama administration has not done enough to ensure the safety of a high-profile blind Chinese dissident. Chen Guangcheng, a human rights activist who escaped from home confinement last week before taking refuge in the US...
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CNSNews.com
| 1 year ago
The White House evaded questions as much as possible about a Chinese human rights activist, but seemed to shed doubt on claims that the Chinese government threatened his family. Questions about Chen Guangcheng, the blind activist opposed to communist...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
As the Obama administration reassesses how to assist a blind Chinese In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng makes a phone call as he is accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke in a car...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Hong/Associated Press Mitt Romney criticized the Obama administration's handling of the case of Chen Guangcheng at a campaign stop on Thursday in Portsmouth, Va...Mitt Romney criticized the Obama administration on Thursday for its handling of the...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
May 3, 2012 Cao Yaxue, an author and human rights advocate, addresses the emergency congressional hearing on Chen Guangcheng...Congress offered qualified criticism of the administration's handling of Chen Guangcheng and expressed hopes for a positive...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama came under pressure on Thursday to ensure the safety of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng who briefly took refuge in the American embassy and whose later desperate pleas for asylum from a Beijing hospital bed threaten to...
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CNSNews.com
| 1 year ago
Bob Xiqiu Fu, founder and president of the human rights group ChinaAid and a personal friend of Chen Guangcheng, the blind human rights activist now seeking to leave Communist China after escaping house arrest and leaving the safe haven of the U.S.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
There was one name that top Chinese leaders alluded to repeatedly as they welcomed U.S. officials Wednesday to a high-level Beijing meeting , now overshadowed by the plight of blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng ...It was Richard Nixon, who 40...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng , in a telephone interview early Friday, said he voluntarily left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to see his family and get treatment at a nearby hospital, but he said the Chinese government so far is not honoring an...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney issued a sharply worded critique Thursday of the Obama administration's handling of the case of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, stating during a campaign event that he was troubled by news reports that Chen felt pressure to leavetheU.S.
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Carney refused to answer questions about whether the White House would support asylum for Chen, repeatedly referring those questions to the State Department. He also insisted that Chen never requested political asylum while in the U.S. embassy and...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell (facing camera, 4th R) stand nearby, in a Beijing hospital, May 2, 2012. The blind Chinese human rights activist at the center of a festering diplomatic standoff between...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his wife have had a change of heart about staying in China, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Thursday, and American officials are planning to talk with them more to decide whether they should leave their...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Taipei, May 3 (CNA) Two Chinese who had access to blind activist Chen Guangcheng said Thursday that after learning what was happening around him, Chen has changed his mind and said he and his family would like to leave China -- a request that has...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Taipei, May 3 (CNA) China needs to speed up political reforms to maintain judicial integrity and protect human rights, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) urged Thursday after the dramatic escape of a Chinese human rights activist from home...
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BBC South Asia
| 1 year ago
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he has been unable to meet US officials to discuss his desire to leave the country. The blind activist, in hospital in Beijing, told the BBC he believed Chinese officials were preventing US envoys from visiting...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
As U.S. officials were trying to figure out his wishes, but remained barred Thursday afternoon from meeting with him in person, blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng was reported to have expressed a desire to fly to the United States when Secretary...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he wants to leave for the United States rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the US embassy in Beijing and defuse a standoff that has strained China-US ties. That...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
official AFP 23 mins ago A YouTube screenshot shows blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng. 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...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Chen Guangcheng, the blind dissident at the centre of a diplomatic storm between Beijing and Washington, has told the ABC he now fears for his safety and wants to leave China. It took many attempts to get through to Mr Chen at his hospital bed, with...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Dissident Chen Guangcheng 'wants to leave China' Chen Guangcheng, speaking in hospital, said he feared for his family's safety Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he fears for his life and wants to leave China, hours after leaving his refuge in...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Blind Chinese dissident Chen appealed to President Barack Obama to help him escape China with his family, telling journalists he feared for his life just hours after leaving the U.S. Embassy under a deal that Washington had hoped would defuse the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Embassy in Beijing , saying officials were "strongly dissatisfied with the move" to shelter the activist and demanded an apology from Washington. The scolding tone of the message delivered by a Foreign Ministry official and reported by state-run...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Chen, who riled Chinese authorities by exposing forced abortions and sterilizations under the "one-child" policy, fled house arrest on April 22 and sought refuge in the US embassy, where he demanded assurances over his freedom. Chen agreed to leave...
