Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng was severely beaten in jail by other prisoners on the orders of guards

Humanist, Sept-Oct, 2007 by Karen Ann Gajewski

According to Amnesty International, Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng was severely beaten in jail by other prisoners on the orders of guards and denied medical treatment. The thirty-five-year-old blind man is serving a four-year sentence for accusing local health workers in Linyl City in Shandong province of illegally forcing hundreds of people to undergo sterilization or have late-term abortions in order to abide by Chinas one-child policy. An appeal of his sentence was denied in January.

Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist.