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Did the Obama administration abandon Chen Guangcheng?
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| 05/02/2012
| Ed Morrissey
Posted on 05/02/2012 9:19:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
For those who want to know about Chen Guangcheng's background...
Chen Guangcheng (born 12 November 1971) is a Chinese civil rights activist who works on human rights issues in rural areas of the People's Republic of China. Blind from an early age and self-taught in the law, Chen is frequently described as a "barefoot lawyer" who advocates for women's rights and the poor. He is best known for exposing alleged abuses in official family planning policy, often involving claims of violence and forced abortions.
In 2005, he became internationally known for organizing a class-action lawsuit against the city of Linyi in Shandong for excessive enforcement of the one-child policy. As a result of this lawsuit, Chen was placed under house arrest from September 2005 to March 2006, with a formal arrest in June 2006.
During his trial, Chen's attorneys were forbidden access to the court, leaving him without a proper defender. On 24 August 2006, Chen was sentenced to four years and three months for "damaging property and organising a mob to disturb traffic".
Chen was released from prison on 8 September 2010 after serving his full sentence, but remained under house arrest or "soft detention" at his home in Dongshigu Village.
Chen and his wife were reportedly beaten shortly after a human rights group released a video of their home under intense police surveillance on 9 February 2011.
Chen's case received sustained international attention, with the U.S. State Department, the British Foreign Secretary, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International issuing appeals for his release; the latter group designated him a prisoner of conscience.
Chen is a 2007 laureate of the Ramon Magsaysay Award and in 2006 was named to the Time 100.
On 22 April 2012, Chen escaped his house arrest and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing After negotiations with the Chinese government he left the embassy for medical treatment on May 2, 2012.
To: JimSEA
RE: We caved to a stronger and dominant government
WHAT? stronger and dominant? When did that happen?
To: healy61
The Chinese are our bankers. We owe them over $1 trillion. They call the tune and we dance to it. There is no way we would allow Chen to stay in the Embassy given that relationship.
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posted on
05/02/2012 10:39:22 AM PDT
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kabar
To: SeekAndFind
The Chinese have passed us, at least in the minds of the current administration. We don’t want to make our banker mad. What else do you call this. What am I talking about? Chen is just a chink, why should we care what happens to him?
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05/02/2012 10:49:44 AM PDT
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JimSEA
To: SeekAndFind
A question comes to my mind ... WHAT WOULD REAGAN DO? Since that man left office this nation has deteriorated in geometric proportions. Washington is a cesspool & this cancer is spreading throughout the country. Each hour another freedom lost, another capitulation to the dark side, Christianity frowned on, Islam rewarded with Sharia law in parts. No jobs, more debt, with elites stealing by fiat currency & entrenched by public school indoctrination & media. Instead of a shining city on the hill we got the present with no effort to change it.
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posted on
05/02/2012 10:52:54 AM PDT
by
Digger
(If RINO is your selection then failure is your election)
To: dead
To: SeekAndFind
This is what communism always progresses to, terror and even brutal killing of dissidents and their families. It will happen here if we don’t overthrow communism at any cost.
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05/02/2012 2:05:01 PM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
shame on obama and clinton for abandoning this man who sought shelter in what is known throughout china as “the only safe place in beijing.” to turn out a blind man who went through hell to reach the embassy... back to the chicom thugs. so much for the beacon of light.
To: SeekAndFind
Hillary state dept Bump...all this time a US official named Candace Claiborne in Beijing was busy accepting gifts from her Chinese handlers...
Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on Wednesday night, a shaken Chen told The Associated Press that U.S. officials relayed the threat from the Chinese side.
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12/01/2019 6:06:17 AM PST
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piasa
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To: SeekAndFind
Bump...all this time a US official named Candace Claiborne in Beijing was busy accepting gifts from her Chinese handlers...
Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on Wednesday night, a shaken Chen told The Associated Press that U.S. officials relayed the threat from the Chinese side.
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12/01/2019 6:13:22 AM PST
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piasa
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