China - Well-known dissident Chen Guangcheng escapes from house arrest

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges the government of the country concerned to grant fugitive human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his family political asylum if it is true, as some say, that he has found refuge in a foreign embassy in Beijing after escaping earlier this week from the house arrest to which he had been subjected since release from prison in 2010. “On the other hand, if Chen is still on Chinese territory, the Chinese authorities must now end his house arrest – of which the (...)

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