Chen Guangcheng

• Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng warns Beijing against suppression

  Activist Chen Guangcheng has made a stern warning to Chinese leaders, saying their efforts to crush opposition forces or suppress human rights will only backfire.

• Chen Guang-who? Chinese official claims ignorance of blind activist

  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 said on Friday that he has no idea who he was.

• Blind Chinese activist's brother sues police for barging into home

  The eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said on Wednesday he is suing the police and the local government that oversees his village in northeastern China for barging into his house unlawfully after his brother's escape.

• Blind Chinese activist to visit China's rival Taiwan

  Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose escape from house arrest sparked a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington, accepted an invitation on Friday to visit Taiwan, underscoring his drive to ensure his influence as a human rights campaigner will continue abroad.

• Blind Chinese activist, now in US, seeks book deal

  Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is planning to write a book about his life and his quest for human rights in his native country. Mr Chen has three goals, spokesman Matt Dorf said on Thursday: to spread his message for greater freedom in China, to help support his family and to raise money to contribute to human rights organizations.

• Brother of blind Chinese dissident escapes village

  The older brother of the blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, who triggered a diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington has escaped his heavily guarded home and arrived in the capital Thursday, a rights lawyer said.

• Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng rests in New York City

  Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York University.

• Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US

  A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country has arrived in the United States. Chen Guangcheng was accompanied by his wife and two children Saturday evening at Newark Liberty International Airport, outside New York City. He had been hurriedly taken from a Chinese hospital hours earlier and put on a plane after autho...

• 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.

• China 'bars' blind dissident's family choice of lawyers

  The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a case that has focused world attention on China's human rights.

• Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to get passport 'within 15 days'

  Blind activist Chen Guangcheng said on Thursday that China had agreed to issue him a passport within 15 days, allowing him to go to the United States, after a bitter row between Beijing and Washington.

• China dissident's escape "more exciting than Shawshank Redemption"

  The woman who drove blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to Beijing after his dramatic escape from house arrest in eastern China told how she sat down with security officers afterwards to watch the jailbreak movie, "The Shawshank Redemption". He Peirong said that five days after picking up Chen, she was taken from her home in Nanjing by state sec...

• US Vice President Joe Biden says Chen's future is in United States

  US Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday that the United States was ready to give blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng a visa "right away" and warned that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney would be weak on the international stage.

• Dissident Chen tells China of abuse: US

  Dissident Chen Guangcheng, at the heart of a crisis between the United States and China, gave an account to Chinese authorities about abuse under house arrest, a US official said on Friday.

• China indicates will allow activist to leave soon: US

  The United States said on Friday that China had indicated it would let blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family leave the country soon, raising hopes of a resolution to a damaging diplomatic crisis.