Chen Guangcheng (born November 12, 1971) is a civil rights activist in the People's Republic of China who drew international attention to human rights issues in rural areas.

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Chen Guangcheng: Forced Abortion in China 'Still Extensively Exists' Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest and flight to New York captured the attention of the world in May, has issued a powerful video calling on the Chinese Communist Party to account for crimes committed against the Chinese people. "The human rights situation in China is, in fact, getting worse," he says. "In China, no one is safe."

Chen Guangcheng: Nephew is 'scapegoat': CNN's Richard Roth talks to activist Chen Guangcheng about his nephew wh...

New York City, N.Y., Nov 29, 2012 / 12:04 am (CNA).- A secular men's magazine has praised Chinese anti-abortion advocate Chen Guangcheng in its December 2012 issue, placing him on the list of “Man of the Year.” Gentleman's Quarterly, the popular men's entertainment and fashion magazine, lauded the b...

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Christian Bale, the Hollywood actor, was pushed and shoved by security guards while trying to visit Chen Guangcheng, one of China's most prominent human righ...

Christian Bale praised Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng for his activities against China’s one child policy and called the human rights violations in China "a true horror."

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"I've never heard of him." – Chinese official in charge of Chen Guangcheng's home village. Quote of the day!

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I just don't believe Linyi party boss has never heard of Chen Guangcheng. I mean, he won the Voice of China. Come on guys.

BEIJING (Reuters) - 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

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Christian Bale FINALLY meets Chen Guangcheng, blind forced abortion lawyer, when he honors him in an emotional ceremony

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.talks to Guangcheng, one of 2012 Brave Thinkers, and compares him to Tank Man.

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US envoy Gary Locke urges China to review Tibet policy Tuesday, 30 October, 2012, 12:35pm Agence France-Presse in Washington The US ambassador to China urged Beijing to re-examine policies toward Tibetans as he acknowledged that he had quietly visited monasteries during a spate of self-immolation protests. Ambassador Gary Locke, speaking from Beijing to an online forum in the United States, said he visited monasteries last month in the flashpoint Aba prefecture to “get an appreciation of Tibetan culture and the way of life”. Aba, an ethnically Tibetan area of Sichuan province, has been a hotbed of protests against Beijing’s rule. Some 60 ethnic Tibetans, many of them monks and nuns, have set themselves alight since February 2009 in Sichuan and Tibet. “We implore the Chinese to really meet with the representatives of the Tibetan people to address and re-examine some of the policies that have led to some of the restrictions and the violence and the self-immolations,” Locke said. “We have very se ...

On Thursday actor Christian Bale presented blind forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng with an award at the annual gala of Human Rights First. In December 2011, while Chen was still in China under house arrest, Bale attempted to visit Chen but was roughed up by thugs, who prevented him from visi...

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Life Site News writes about a pro-life activist in communist China who asked for help from the American government and was betrayed by them. Excerpt: Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who has suffered years of imprisonment and beatings for objecting to forced abortions and sterilizations in his nat...

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BEIJING (Reuters) - The eldest brother of Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said on Friday a Chinese court had rejected his lawsuit filed against local police and officials for unlawfully barging

Court Rejects Lawsuit by Chen Guangcheng’s Brother: A Shandong court has rejected an attempt ...

I hadn't seen video of this. Christian Bale's a good man."Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng honored"

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Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng's brother loses court case

“The State Department likes to say now that they played some kind of a heroic role,” said Littlejohn. “I would dispute that characterizatio...

I'm grateful 2Christian Bale 4 speaking out about 4ced abortion in China! &of course Chen Guangcheng.

Just saw Chen Guangcheng (the Blind Chinese dissident) on the Brooklyn Promenade just now. He must have decamped to Brooklyn post

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Christian Bale, the Batman actor, has honoured Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng in New York.

Cohen: "Barefoot like Chen Guangcheng began to spring up because regular lawyers ignored the people's grievances.

Cohen: Zhou Yongkang was responsible for putting away Chen Guangcheng. I said, is this the way you want the world to know behaves?

Cohen: the most special thing abt Chen Guangcheng is that we *know* his story. Most human rights activists have just disappeared.

Jessica Lee: What Chen Guangcheng Left Behind in on nephew Cheng Kegui's arrest

Great review of amazing Guangcheng and Christian Bale meeting and award presentation at -- LINK:

See our President Obamas "LIST" of Accomplishments !! A lot of them ."Were NOT promised" 09/10/12 Yemeni forces have killed Said al-Shihri, second in command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda Combating Terrorism 09/02/12 U.S. drone strike killed a top al-Qaida militant (Khaled Batis), who was wanted for allegedly masterminding a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker Terrorism Combating Terrorism 08/24/12 Mullah Dadullah, a senior commander of the Pakistani Taliban, killed by NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan Pakistani Taliban Combating Terrorism 06/06/12 Abu Yahya al-Libi, No.2 leader of Al Qaeda, confirmed killed by CIA drone strike in Pakistan Al-Qaeda Defeating Al Qaeda 05/19/12 Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng free to leave China with his family and study in the USA after diplomatic negotiations with China by Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration International Relations Freedom of Speech 05/09/12 Barack Obama becomes the first President to publicly support the legalizati ...

Toast to Freedom: Chen Guangcheng. ATLAS freedom diner in New York. A great message for liberty !

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Hollywood actor Christian Bale presented a human rights award to Chinese pro-life advocate Chen Guangcheng for fighting forced abortions in China, praising him as a courageous and inspirational figure.

I'm so grateful to Christian Bale for speaking out about forced abortion in China! And of course Chen Guangcheng...

The Blind Chinese lawyer whose escape to the U.S. embassy in Beijing sparked a diplomatic crisis is being honored by a human rights group in New York. Human Rights First gave the award to Chen Guangcheng at its annual gala on Wednesday.

A Greek foundation in D.C. says the Chinese activist embodies the same courage as those who stood against the Nazis.

While Hollywood starlets arepledging allegiance to Obamaand decrying the ridiculously contrived “war on women” (asking women to pay for their own birth control? Oh, the horror!), Christian Bale has been bringing attention the work of Chen Guangcheng, a Blind Chinese lawyer who was brutally beaten...

CNN's Steve Jiang visits blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng's childhood home in Shandong Province, the setting of Chen's dramatic escape from house arrest last year that led to a diplomatic stand-off between China and the US eventually resulting in Chen, along with his wife and children, f...

Chen "...had exposed a program of forced abortion and sterilization in Shandong. ... means that women are being dragged from their homes against their will. They are being forced to have abortions,sometimes late-term-imagine that-with some women reportedly dying in the process. ...for this, this man...

CNN's Steven Jiang revisits Chen Guangcheng's home in China and recounts the activist's escape.

China's best-known activist for civil liberties and rule of law, now exiled in the United States, explains why he is optimistic about China's "inevitable" emergence as a democracy that respects its people's rights.

Actor Christian Bale presented blind opponent of forced abortion Chen Guangcheng with an award at Human Rights First's gala...

Batman thwarted, now Bale finally meets Chen Guangcheng: Chen honored in US by Human Rights First. (HT

Every once in a while I wonder if Christian Bale really IS Batman.

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Last night, at the annual Human Rights First Award dinner, Christian Bale finally met Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng whom he attempted to visit this past December in China.

These things are actually happening in our world. Imagine that.

Great CNN coverage of the story of Chen Guangcheng and his meeting with Christian Bale at our awards dinner last night.

Human Rights First, "an independent advocacy and action organization that challenges America to live up to its ideals", gave Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng its "Human Rights Award" at its annual gala in New York on Wednesday.

Now lets look at May/June MAY 2012 – After Obama’s campaign pointed out that in 2007, Romney said he would not order a military raid similar to the one Obama ordered that ended up killing Osama bin Laden, Romney says “of course” he would have ordered the raid, adding “any thinking American would have ordered exactly the same thing.” (Biden and Gates advised Obama against it.) [5/01/2012] – Right-wing foreign policy don Bill Kristol calls Romney “foolish” for attacking Obama on his handling of the affair surrounding Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. [5/03/2011] – Romney continues to demonstrate his ignorance of the basic facts of the raid that killed bin Laden. [5/09/2012] – CNN reports on a new analysis of Romney’s plan for the military budget which found that he plans to increase military spending by a whopping $2.1 trillion with no plan to pay for it. Romney did not dispute this figure during his Oct. 3, 2012 debate with Obama. [5/10/2012] – The New York Times reports that Rom ...

yes, but having freedom from poverty is bittersweet without freedom. ask Ai Weiwei & Chen Guangcheng.

The Obama foreign policy lynchpin known as “engagement” has run into one more eminently predictable quagmire in the case of Chen Guangcheng.

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Haven't heard a word lately from Chen Guangcheng, the Blind Chinese dissident. Maybe he's been paid to become a mute.

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Understanding the greater meaning of through the words of Chen Guangcheng

China implicates Bo Xilai in criminal case. Lunch with the FT: Chen Guangcheng. If anyone guessed those two a year ago, my hat's off to you.

As horrendous as this is, I’m wondering if it could be even worse than advertised. China being China, who knows how many of the fetuses involved were voluntarily aborted. That’s what the whole Chen Guangcheng flap is about, remember: He’s a crusader against compulsory abortions and sterilization. Gi...

Bo Xilai, the Sichuan earthquakes, Liu Xiaobo, Chen Guangcheng, Ai Weiwei, the railway crashes, increased awareness of production shortcuts

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Only 3 hours to go before No Triumph No Tragedy. Peter White talks to Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng. Don't miss

you stopped look ahead to progs at 1pm No Triumph No Tragedy is *** today - on at 1330 IVee: Chen Guangcheng

Instead, there have been too many cheap shots and miscues that have only called attention to Mr. Romney’s inexperience in foreign affairs. This week’s accusation that the Obama administration sympathizes with rioters called to mind Mr. Romney’s over-the-top attack in May when U.S. officials were in the midst of delicate negotiations in Beijing to win freedom for human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng. “If these reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom and it’s a day of shame for the Obama administration,” Mr. Romney said, shortly before Mr. Chen flew to New York City.

Romney has two cartoon villain Obamas: the betrayer and the street thug

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ever notice Mitt never smiles ??? juess if you know November 6th around 10 pm you're gonna get your *** handed to you on a silver platter you would'nt smile either !!

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Please give me your grade on Willard Mitt Romney's foreign policy. Before you grade him consider the following facts: ***London *** 1. He seemed to get into a public spat with the UK prime minister over London’s readiness to host the Olympics. 2. There was the issue of whether Romney forgot Labour leader Ed Miliband’s name, referring to him as “Mr. Leader.” Remember,the Brits have a Special Relationship with the U.S., they are the easypeasy bit of US foreign relations. ~Mitt blew it. ***Russia *** He branded Russia the “No. 1 geopolitical foe” of the United States. ***China *** It’s been largely forgotten, but in the spring, there was a difficult diplomatic incident involving Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. While delicate negotiations were underway, Mitt Romney jumped in, condemned U.S. officials during their tense diplomatic talks with China, and blasted the “day of shame for the Obama administration.” Soon after, the criticisms looked ridiculous, and even Bill Kristol (republican) s ...

In May of 2012, Chen Guangcheng, the Blind Chinese dissident, was under arrest in China. He had been subjected to beatings and faced life-long house arrest and isolation. While Sec. of State Rodham Clinton was in China negotiating his possible emigration to the U.S., Romney critized our country's handling of this tense international situation. Tuesday night, while our embassies were still under attack and with knowledge that one of our Libyan staff members had been murdered, Romney publicly critized President Obama and the staffs of the embassies that were under attack. Romney accused them of showing weakness, apologizing for our values, and sympathizing with the attackers. Calling someone an "enemy sympthasizer" can be equivalent to calling them a traitor, especially when the U.S. is under attack or at war. Now, just a few days later, we understand that the murders of our Libyan embassy staff was likely the work of an Al Qaeda terrorist attack. Since then, Romney has not recanted any of his accusations o ...

: Clinton State Dept embarrassing handling of Chen Guangcheng was just another disastrous symbol of Hillary/Barack's folly.

Not the 1st time Mitt Romney fired before aiming. Remember Chen Guangcheng?

Romney also denounced admin when Chen Guangcheng rescue turned dicey. Why no outrage? No one died when Chen cried.

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Romney gaffed on Chen Guangcheng release, gaffed on UK Olympics, gaffed on Libyan consulate assault -- three strikes r ...

No one says it quite like Liz Cheney. The former Bush State Department official dissected Team Obama's bumbling of the Chen Guangcheng affair. Cheney told Ch...

The Communist Chinese policy of birth control by coerced abortions to reduce the birth rate of couples to one child is a very real and grim fact. LifeSiteNews recently reported the story of Chen Guangcheng, a dissident who escaped from China and is shining the spotlight onApple Corporation, whose em...

New York Committee briefing on China with Chen Guangcheng. (@ San Remo w/

This is not the first time Romney has made a mistake like this. Think Chen Guangcheng.

Chen Guangcheng's letter to today's big newsmaker on China's one child rule:

No, it's also a judgment error -- the same one he made in the Chen Guangcheng case.

Reading: "CHINA Chen Guangcheng calls on Apple to stop forced abortions in China - Asia News"( )

Rewind: Recall what Jon Hunstman's daughter Abby said last time spoke on an internatl incident (Chen Guangcheng)?

Not so surprising given Romney's response to the Chen Guangcheng incident in Beijing.

agreed. Reaching consensus re: Chen Guangcheng was sensitive. Can't believe no one took Romney to task over this.

The too-rapid Romney response (on embassy attack evokes how the campaign handled the Chen Guangcheng case.

Not the first time Romney blundered into the middle of an ongoing crisis in an inept attempt to politicize it. Remember Chen Guangcheng?

I mean, I'm not who is wholly capable of speaking for himself, but comparing Chen Guangcheng to a rioter absurd.

Chen Guangcheng also entered the US Embassy in Beijing under abnormal circumstances. Just sayin.

Chinese activist presses Apple to work against one-child policy – Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese pro-life activist,...

Praise God for Pastor Youcef's release from an Iranian prison. May God keep him and his family safe. Worldwide public pressure has made a difference in this case, the Chinese case against Attorney Gao Zhezhing, and Chinses dissident Chen Guangcheng. Please join the Voice of the Martyrs and/or the American Center for Law and Justice to add your voice to the thousands of us who fight daily to publicize the persecuted!

Twins separated at birth? No, lunch with my hero Chen Guangcheng, the Blind Chinese dissident.

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Taiwan to invite Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng for visit, in move likely to anger China

The diplomatic row triggered by the Chinese blind dissident Chen Guangcheng has raised its head again. Mr ...

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Dissident, in U.S., Concerned for Brother After Return to Chinese Village: Chen Guangfu, the older brother of Ch...

White House pleased Blind Chinese dissident is heading to US: Chen Guangcheng has left China and will study at N...

I wonder if Chen Guangcheng will be meeting with Tom Friedman when he gets to the US so Tom can tell him what a great place China is.

Fmr Sec of State Albright: I wasn't impressed with the initial response re: Chen Guangcheng.

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Chen Guangcheng could be in US 'within days' after deal to end diplomatic stand-off with Chinese

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