China Blind Activist

• Brother of blind Chinese activist says he was beaten up

  The eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said he was beaten up on Thursday by two men he said were government-hired thugs, which would mark a sharp escalation in harassment meted out to Chen's family.

• Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's family faces threats in China

  A brother of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said Wednesday that the family faces official persecution and threats despite assurances that they would be treated in accordance to Chinese law when the activist was allowed to leave the country after escaping from house arrest.

• Diplomatic standoff ends; Chinese dissident heads to US

  A blind Chinese legal activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital and put on a plane for the United States on Saturday, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

• Hillary Clinton lands in China as activist case looms

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for talks with Chinese leaders that risk being overshadowed by the case of a blind activist said to be under US protection after fleeing house arrest.

• Blind Chinese activist flees house arrest

  A blind legal activist fled house arrest in his rural China village and made it to a secret location in Beijing on Friday, setting off a frantic police search for him and those who helped him, activists said.