Chen also said the United States needed to take a harder line with the Communist Party, or the CPC, and "give up on the appeasement policy. The CPC has always been unreasonable and arbitrary. Search Search. Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 11, VOA Africa Listen live. He further states that up to men were stationed in the village to implement the house arrest and that his young daughter was followed by three guards every day on her way to school.
In light of his escape from a strict house arrest, the raiding of his brother's home and serious beatings that he and his wife were reportedly subjected to in , Front Line Defenders is seriously concerned for the security of Chen Guangcheng and his family, who are at grave risk of retaliation by the local authorities in Dongshigu, and for the security and physical and psychological integrity of human rights defender He Peirong while in detention.
Front Line Defenders calls for the protection of Chen Guangcheng's family and fellow human rights defenders, and recalls that Chen Guangcheng's human rights activities are peaceful and legitimate. Human rights defender Mr Chen Guangcheng, along with his wife Ms Yuan Weijing, his mother, and six-year old daughter, have now been under house arrest for almost a year, during which time they have been completely isolated from the outside world, and forced to endure severe food shortages as none of the family is being permitted to leave the property.
Chen Guangcheng is a blind, self-taught human rights lawyer who served four years imprisonment as a result of his work on women's rights in Linyi City, Shangdong Province. Since his release from prison on 9 September , neither Chen Guangcheng nor his wife Yuan Weijing have been allowed to step outside their home or maintain any form of contact with the outside world. Phone-jamming equipment has been installed which makes it impossible for the family to use the phone.
A group of approximately 30 men surround the house and block off the entrances to the village in which the family lives.
Over the previous year, a number of attempts have been made by fellow human rights defenders, journalists, and foreign diplomats to gain access to Chen Guangcheng and his family, however their attempts have been futile.
In one particular incident, a human rights defender who attempted to gain entry to the home was threatened, beaten, robbed, abducted and later abandoned on the roadside in a remote area. The human rights defender reported the incident to local police, who subsequently held her incommunicado for three days.
A reliable source has informed Front Line that the family is quickly running out of food and has been forced to survive on vegetables growing in the family's vegetable patch. The vegetables are picked by Chen Guangcheng's year old mother, who is the only family member permitted to step outside the family home.
Chen Guangcheng and his wife have been subjected to severe beatings, following which they have been denied access to medical attention. Chen Guangcheng's health has deteriorated rapidly since his release from prison, however he is continuously denied access to medical treatment. He is reportedly passing blood in his stools, which since early May, has turned from red to black. Over the previous year, the home of Chen Guangcheng has been raided and ransacked on several occasions.
A number of items were confiscated including a computer, a video camera, an audio tape recorder, a radio, books, paper, and Chen Guangcheng's blind cane. The couple's six-year old daughter, who is also under house arrest is being denied the opportunity to attend school. It has become increasingly difficult for Chen Guangcheng and his wife, Yuan Weijing to provide her with home-schooling because basic essentials such as writing instruments and paper have been confiscated during the various raids on the family home.
It is further reported that the couple's young son, who is currently in the care of family relatives, has only been permitted one visit to his parents' home during the Chinese new year.
Following the visit, the child was strip-searched after he left the premises. Front Line strongly condemns the ongoing house arrest of human rights defender Chen Guangcheng and his family. Front Line is gravely concerned for the physical and psychological integrity of Chen Guangcheng and his wife following reports that they have been subjected to beatings during the past year and have been denied access to urgent medical attention. Furthermore, Front Line is deeply concerned amid revelations that the family is quickly running out of food and may be forced to starve at the hands of the Chinese authorities.
Front Line believes that the situation of Chen Guangcheng and his family is directly linked to his legitimate work in the promotion and protection of human rights in China. In a letter smuggled out of their home and which only surfaced on 15 June , Ms Yuan Weijing describes in detail the savage beating that she and her husband, human rights defender Mr Chen Guangcheng, received following the online circulation of a video documenting their ongoing house arrest in February Chen Guangcheng is a blind, self-taught human rights lawyer who served four years imprisonment as a result of his work exposing human rights abuses in Linyi City, Shangdong Province.
Chen Guangcheng was released from prison on 9 September , and since then he and his wife have been subjected to strict house arrest. The letter, which was received by the US-based China Aid organisation on 15 June , describes how on 18 February , over 70 unidentified people stormed their home and beat and tortured the couple for over two hours.
She writes that she was wrapped in a blanket and kicked by more than ten men for half an hour, leaving her unable to see in her left eye for five days, and with what she thinks is a cracked rib. At the time of her writing the letter, she was still unable to stand up straight as a result of the attack. One account says that he began his activism early, reportedly campaigning for the enforcement of a law exempting people with disabilities from various taxes and payments.
He is then reported to have studied at the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine from to , when he returned to his home province of Shandong. But he managed to enrol in law classes and he is said to have learned enough to help his fellow villagers when they sought his help.
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