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Amnesty International has launched a new Chinese-language website containing research reports, articles and blog entries on the organisations research and activism around the world. Posted: 21 Jun 2013

Amnesty International has condemned news that Chen Kegui, the nephew of exiled blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, has received a sentence of three years and three months imprisonment from a Shangdong court in eastern China. Posted: 30 Nov 2012

Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to immediately renew the visa and press credentials of the expelled Al-Jazeera English China correspondent, Melissa Chan. Posted: 9 May 2012

A 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 activists wider family in detention and retaliates against his supporters, Amnesty International said. Posted: 4 May 2012

Promises to Chen Guangcheng that he can live a normal life if he remains in China, must be viewed with extreme caution, Amnesty International said as he and his family spent their first day reunited in hospital in Beijing surrounded by security personnel. Posted: 3 May 2012

The US must guarantee Chen Guangcheng's safety and insist China protect the rights of the activist and his family, Amnesty International said amid reports the Chinese activist escaped from illegal house arrest last week into American diplomatic protection in China. Posted: 2 May 2012

Fears for blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who made a bold escape from illegal house arrest, have prompted Amnesty International to urge China to ensure his safety and that of his family and friends. Posted: 27 Apr 2012

As international human rights come to the fore following the arrival of pandas at Edinburgh Zoo and First Minister Alex Salmond's visit to China, seven MSPs have joined with people from around the globe to put pen to paper in support of Amnesty International's new Write for Rights campaign. Posted: 9 Dec 2011

Amnesty International today urged the Chinese authorities to stop detaining and harassing more than one hundred activists targeted in an apparent attempt to block anti-government demonstrations inspired by protests across the Middle East. Posted: 25 Feb 2011

An ad hoc legal adviser and his family are facing the very real prospect of starving to death in their own home. Chen Guangcheng and his family are currently under house arrest and are being stopped from replenishing their rapidly dwindling food supplies by the local authorities. Posted: 20 Sep 2010

The Chinese authorities have increased surveillance, harassment and imprisonment of activists ahead of the country's 60th anniversary on 1 October to prevent them from raising human rights concerns that challenge the authorities' image of social harmony, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 28 Sep 2009

Amnesty International is calling on the Shangdong authorities to stop the continuing harassment of Yuan Weijing, the wife of imprisoned legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who has been under virtual house arrest since 2005. Posted: 21 Apr 2009

Scottish Government should use growing relationship with China to call for respect of human rights, says Amnesty International's Scotland office. Posted: 2 May 2012

Scottish Government urged to raise case during visit by Chinese delegation earlier this week Posted: 28 Apr 2012

Amnesty International has today (7 August) warned that human rights abuses in China are blighting the countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as it published a new China report on the eve of the 'one year to go' mark. Posted: 7 Aug 2007

Jailed activist Chen Guangcheng has been severely beaten by other prisoners on the orders of prison guards and denied medical treatment, said Amnesty International today (22 June). The organisation believes his life is in danger, and that he is at risk of further torture and ill-treatment. Posted: 22 Jun 2007

Several Chinese activists who have supported or participated in a series of protest hunger-strikes since 4 February have been arrested or gone missing. Amnesty International calls on the authorities to clarify their exact whereabouts, guarantee their safety and free them unless they are charged with a recognisably criminal offence. Posted: 21 Feb 2006

Amnesty International has learned from reliable sources that operations of the Beijing-based Shengzhi Law Office have been suspended by the Chinese authorities for one year. Posted: 7 Nov 2005