Chen Guangcheng enlists Congress as he criticises China

August 2nd, 2012

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“The government further promised to provide for the security of my family.
However, it has been more than three months and I have not received any news
on the progress of this investigation or even whether it has commenced,” he
said.

Mr Chen complained that no Chinese official has contacted him since he arrived
in the United States. China had said that it was allowing Mr Chen to go
abroad with his family to study, but some experts presumed that China’s main
motivation was to get rid of Mr Chen and doubted he would be able to return.

Authorities have charged his nephew, Chen Kegui, with attempted murder. The
dissident said that his nephew was defending himself with a kitchen knife
after thugs linked to the local government broke into his home.

Speaking before a meeting with US lawmakers, Mr Chen said that the human
rights situation was deteriorating in China but that change was inevitable
as citizens make their voices heard.

“I sincerely hope that the United States and all other nations that embrace
the fundamental values of constitutionalism, democracy, freedom and the rule
of law will support and assist with a smooth transition in China,” Mr Chen
said.

Mr Chen enjoyed a rare bipartisan welcome in the polarised Congress, meeting
jointly with House Speaker John Boehner, the top elected Republican, and
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House leader of President Barack Obama’s
Democratic Party.

Mr Boehner said that the United States should speak out over human rights
abuses in China, including its “reprehensible” one-child policy.

“When it comes to guaranteeing the freedom and dignity of all of her citizens,
the Chinese government has a responsibility to do better and the United
States government has a responsibility to hold them to account,” Boehner
said.

Mr Chen later met separately with Senator John Kerry, the Democratic chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called the dissident’s story
an “inspiration” and said the pair spoke about Mr Chen’s nephew.

“Chen Kegui must be treated fairly and humanely, and granted access to
whatever defense counsel he chooses,” Mr Kerry said in a statement.

Mr Chen fled to the US embassy days before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
paid a previously scheduled visit to Beijing.

Mrs Clinton and her aides brokered the deal for Mr Chen’s departure and she
spoke to him by telephone but she did not meet him, as part of an apparent
understanding with China to keep US statements at a low level.