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April 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
During his trial, his lawyers, who had already suffered repeated beatings by
thugs believed to be hired by local Linyi authorities, were refused entry
into the court room.
While in prison, he was beaten by fellow inmates on at least one occasion,
according to the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a network of rights
activists.
His wife, Yuan Weijing, was reportedly subject to official harassment and
physical violence.
Since his release in September 2010, Chen and his wife and young son have been
held under house arrest, effectively cut off from the outside world, with
dozens of security officers posted outside their home.
Activists and journalists who tried to visit him at his home were roughed up
or harassed and barred from gaining access to the village, among them
Hollywood actor Christian Bale, who travelled there last December.
Chen and his wife were also severely beaten after they smuggled out a
videotape of themselves documenting the conditions of their house arrest
last year, the US-based ChinaAid rights group said at the time.
Chen, who has no formal legal qualifications, is what is known in China as a
“barefoot,” or self-taught, lawyer.
After pursuing law at a blind school during his youth, Chen armed himself with
legal knowledge and began giving free legal advice to villagers for all
sorts of problems, according to his brother.
He gained fame in his locality for helping people sue officials over a wide
variety of injustices, with corrupt officials in government a particular
target.
Although the State Family Planning Commission in 2005 publicly admitted that
local officials in Linyi had carried out forced abortions and sterilisations
and vowed to bring perpetrators to justice, pressure on Chen from county
authorities never abated.
In 2006, he was named by US-based Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most
influential people for his courage in exposing rights abuses in China.
Chen is a past recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, a human rights prize
awarded to deserving activists in Asia.
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