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By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from a post at Wesley’s great blog. The Chinese anti-forced abortion legal activist, Chen Guangcheng, made international headlines last year when he escaped house arrest and fled to the United States Embassy...
By Dave Andrusko GQ [Gentleman’s Quarterly] is not the first place you’d expect to find pro-life human right activist Chen Guangcheng profiled sympathetically, let alone given the designation “Rebel of the Year 2012.” But you take what you can get and the article by...
By Dave Andrusko More than a few of our NRL News Today readers have written to ask what future I anticipated for Chen Guangcheng, the blind pro-life human rights Chinese activist. You’ll recall that Chen garnered international attention in 2005 when he exposed how...
By Dave Andrusko Chinese pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng met yesterday with Congressional leaders, expressing doubts that the investigation the Chinese government promised into the abuses he and his family had suffered in China had even begun and...
By Dave Andrusko Even as he is focuses on the safety of family members who remain in China and his own physical and emotional recovery, pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is preparing to address the prestigious Council on Foreign Affairs on Thursday. Chen...
By Dave Andrusko “Three weeks after Chen took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, his arrival defused political tension between China and the United States. But left uncertain were the future of human rights in China, whether Chen will ever be allowed to return...
By Dave Andrusko The sound of silence is not just the title of a 1960s Simon and Garfunkel song. It also accurately describes the conspicuous-by-its-absence response of “pro-choice” partisans to the wretched treatment of pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng....
By Dave Andrusko CNN is reporting today that pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has said that the paperwork for passports for himself, his wife, and their two children has been completed. "It's the first concrete step forward," said Chen, who is anxious...
By Dave Andrusko The scene could not have been more dramatic, or more chilling. Pro-life and human rights champion Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) was holding a hearing on the fate of Chen Guangcheng, who has paid a fierce price for revealing China’s brutal policy of forced...
By Dave Andrusko Reports are that the United States and China have reached an agreement in which pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng would be allowed to ask permission to study abroad. The Washington Post reported that “the Chinese government had promised...