Amnesty International Blasts New Chen Deal, "Ignores His Family" | LifeNews.com: Amnesty International is condemning a new deal the United States is attempting to arrange with China to allow Chen Guangcheng, the forced abortion opponent, to come to the United States to study as a visiting student.Victoria Nuland, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman, says China has allowed Chen to submit the application and could travel to the United States with his wife and children.
But the human rights watchdog group says the deal ignores the plight of Chen’s extended family, which has already faced persecution in the form of arrests and beatings following Chen’s escape from home confinement. AI says the pledge by China that it will allow Chen Guangcheng to go abroad with his family so he can study seems empty as long as the Chinese state keeps the activist’s wider family in detention and retaliates against his supporters.
Editor: Another irony -- Amnesty International ignores the very cause for which Chen has fought and suffered: forced abortion. Legalized abortion is one of their top five priorities.
Related: Planned Parenthood says it opposes ‘forced abortion’ but is tied to China’s one-child policy
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