Chen Guangcheng

Chen Guangcheng was severely beaten during July 2011, Just confirmed

Based on sources from friends of the victim, it is confirmed that during July of 2011, Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights lawyer under house arrest, and his wife, Yuan Weijing, were severely beaten by the thugs hired by local authorities. This is the first major...

Increased Calls for The Release of Blind Lawyer Chen Guangcheng

Dr. YANG Jianli, President of Initiatives for China, traveled to Taiwan recently and noticed a growing number of supporters in Taiwan and on the Mainland calling for the release of blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng.  “The momentum has increased in recent...

For Chinese Winner's Wife, Nobel is no Prize

NBC News By Adrienne Mong BEIJING—A year ago today, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a writer and activist imprisoned in a northeastern Chinese prison. Today he remains in jail for the crime of “inciting subversion of state power,” serving out an...

Speech at We Have a Dream: Global Summit against Discrimination and Persecution

By: YANG Jianli Sept. 21, 2011, New York Dear friends, today we live in a land of shadows. Stark shadows cast by what is worst in us on what is best. In 1945, as one of the worst convulsions of violence in the history of mankind drew to a close, the United Nations was...

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