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May 19, 2012 Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng and his immediate family have left China on a flight to the United States. They are expected to arrive in Newark, N.J., Saturday evening. State Dept Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed that Chen and his family left China so he can pursue studies at an American university. “We are [...]

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May 4, 2012         6:39 am The State Department said Friday that it expects China to quickly provide travel documents to blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, easing a weeklong crisis between Beijing and Washington over the fate of the long-imprisoned lawyer. Victoria Nuland, the chief State Department spokeswoman, said in a statement [...]

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April 27, 2012         1255 GMT A prominent Chinese human rights activist has called for an investigation into corrupt and cruel officials after he escaped from house arrest in an eastern province and fled to Beijing. Chen Guangcheng addressed the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, in a video posted on YouTube on Friday, [...]

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December 16, 2011         7:52 am “Batman” star Christian Bale  — with a television crew in tow — attempted to visit a blind Chinese human rights activist under house arrest. Bale, who had been in China promoting a new film, “The Flowers of War,” didn’t succeed in meeting with the activist, Chen Guangcheng. Instead, he [...]

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