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Held under house arrest but celebrated as a truth teller, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange followed the lead of Chen Guangcheng today as he sought political asylum in Ecuador's embassy in London.
As authorities in China destroy evidence of their alleged mistreatment of blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng and his family, his brother says that life has improved for his fellow villagers now that the armed guards and checkpoints are gone.
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has not been in the United States long, but he's making the most of his time here by writing an op-ed essay that The New York Times has published in both English and Chinese.
Chen Guangcheng's worst fears have been all but realized: a lawyer for Guangcheng's brother, Chen Guangfu, who also escaped house arrest, says he went missing Friday evening.
Anderson Cooper scored the first in-depth interview with Chen Guangcheng since the blind Chinese activist arrived in the United States last weekend, and the first thing in CNN's teaser for tonight's show is Chen's absolute relief at just being able to go outside.
A brother of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has escaped house arrest and made his way to Beijing, potentially setting off another diplomatic crisis like the one sparked by his younger brother's quest for asylum.
However much a U.S. defendant might complain about getting railroaded, there's really just no comparison with China, where the nephew of a controversial political activist has been charged with a capital offense and barred from choosing his own lawyers.
Chen Guangcheng has good reason to fear for the safety of his family, as his nephew has already been charged with a crime that it's not clear ever happened, and could face the death penalty.
It's starting to look like the U.S. got had in its dealings with China over the release of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
Blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has said he fears reprisals against his family once he leaves China, but now it looks like the Chinese government decided not to wait for him to go before starting in on what Chen calls "crazy retaliation."
If everything goes as planned, one lucky U.S. university will be home to blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng.
When she isn't the subject of an odd "kiss" story with blind Chinese dissidents, Hillary Clinton actually has a real job to do and it means laying down the law for Chinese officials about North Korea, Iran and Syria--which is what she did today in Beijing.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China held an emergency hearing Thursday to discuss the uncertain fate of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, and they got some surprising testimony from none other than Chen himself.
The plight of Chen Guangcheng made its way into domestic U.S. politics on Thursday as Mitt Romney used it in a campaign speech and U.S. Rep. Chris Smith convened an emergency hearing on Chen's fate.
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng talked to the media a lot yesterday and his version of events is making a look like American officials abandoned him to avoid upsetting the Chinese government.
It was hard to take seriously the news that Chen Guangcheng, the blind activist who's been holed up in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, left "of his own volition," as China's state-run media had reported.
As trusted information is particularly difficult to ascertain vis-à-vis the blind Chinese activist who escaped house arrest to seek protection from the U.S., another Chinese activist, Zeng Jinyan, has become a trusted source of information surrounding Chen.
The blind Chinese activist who escaped his house arrest to seek protection from the United States, has now left the American embassy, ending a diplomatic dilemma for both sides.
Chen Guangcheng's run for freedom has dragged the United States into a tricky international showdown with the Chinese, but one that may actually give both governments a dignified way out of the mess.
Details on how a blind Chinese activist under house arrest could escape and make it all the way to Beijing and, allegedly, to the American embassy have begun to emerge. He pretended he was sick.
Escaped Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is now under the protection of U.S. officials, and Chinese and American officials are now in "high-level talks" over the activist's release according to a human rights group.
Chen Guangcheng, a human rights lawyer who has been under house arrest in China since 2010, escaped from his own home and is reportedly hiding somewhere in Beijing.
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