Blind activist Cheng Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest and flight to New York captured the attention of the world in May of this year, has issued a powerful video calling the Chinese Communist Party to account for crimes committed against the Chinese people.\u00a0 These include crimes committed against Chen\u2019s own family, especially Chen Kegui, Chen\u2019s nephew who was just given a 3-year jail sentence for defending himself when officials broke into his house and savagely beat him and his parents.\u00a0 Instead of improving, Chen said that \u201cthe human rights situation in China is, in fact, getting worse . . . in China, no one is safe.\u201d\u00a0 View Chen’s new video here:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/rfwyqbtq5t4szoq\/Chen%20speech%20with%20subtitles.mpg<\/a><\/p>\n Chen advised new Chinese President Xi Jinping that change must come to China, but \u201cit is a matter of whether China will have the transition in a peaceful way or a violent way.\u201d<\/p>\n He stated that \u201c[t]he United States, in particular, as a beacon of freedom, needs to play a leading role\u201d in shifting the focus of the world from trade to human rights.<\/p>\n Moreover, Chen continued, \u201cthe violence in maintaining China\u2019s One Child Policy still extensively exists.\u00a0 It is a sin, because life is sacred.\u201d\u00a0 In 2006, Chen was detained and tortured for exposing the massive, systematic use of forced abortion and involuntary sterilization in China.<\/p>\n Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights without Frontiers, stated, \u201cChen Guangcheng has endured incalculable suffering for human rights in China, and in particular, for the rights of women not to be forcibly aborted or sterilized.\u00a0 He has confirmed that these barbaric practices are still being used \u2018extensively.\u2019\u00a0 Indeed, he has taken a bold step in declaring that the violence against women and babies committed in connection with the coercive enforcement of the One Child Policy \u2018is a sin, because life is sacred.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Littlejohn continued, \u201cThe One Child Policy is perhaps the most hated of all the official policies in China.\u00a0 It is the cause of deep social unrest simmering just beneath the surface of Chinese society.\u00a0 No policy this unjust can last forever.\u00a0 The leaders of the United States should join Chen in calling for a peaceful transition away from policies that are oppressing and terrorizing the people of China, who are one fifth of the population of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign a petition to end forced abortion in China here.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blind activist Cheng Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest and flight to New York captured the attention of the world in May of this year, has issued a powerful video calling the Chinese Communist Party to account for crimes … Continue reading