Chen Guangcheng’s brother flees guarded village

His 32-year-old son, Chen Kegui, is being held in a detention centre in Yinan
and authorities have barred family and the lawyers they chose from visiting
or representing him.

Mr Chen escaped to Beijing in order to seek legal help for Kegui, according to
Ding Xikui, one of the lawyers he met in the capital. “He came for
legal advice. Their house is still under siege and their son is forbidden
from hiring a lawyer or meeting with a lawyer,” said Mr Ding. “I have
been to try to see him twice and have been stopped. I do not know when the
trial will begin,” he said.

Police at the Yinan detention center have told Mr Ding that government-appointed
attorneys will be representing Chen Kegui instead.

“I think this is unfair and illegal,” said Chen Guangfu. “Based on my understanding
of Chen Kegui, he will never refuse the intervention of outside counsel.
From Guangcheng’s case, he understands thoroughly that these so-called
‘legal aid lawyers’ are useless.”

He added that he was “extremely pessimistic” about his son’s prospects.

Chen Kegui’s wife, Liu Fang, told Reuters that she hoped her husband’s case
would be treated like “a normal, criminal case”. Her 5-year-old son,
Chen Fubin, is back in Shandong.

“He (Chen Kegui) must be heavily injured, I’m worried about his physical
state,” she said. “Inside, he might be subject to beatings.”

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