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Dissident Chen Guangcheng raises China concerns with US

 
Published on Aug 02, 2012
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Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng speaks to the press following a meeting with Speaker of the House John Boehner (4th right) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (right) at the US Capitol on Aug 1, 2012 in Washington, DC. Mr Chen was sentenced to more than four years in prison in 2006 after exposing abuses in Mr China's one-child policy, and then placed under house arrest upon his release in September 2010. Mr Chen later fled to the US embassy in Beijing to seek asylum.   -- PHOTO: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The dissident who was at the centre of a stand-off between China and the United States (US) on Wednesday accused Beijing of failing to live up to its promises as US lawmakers rallied behind him.

Mr Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist who was jailed after exposing abuses in China's one-child policy, has lived in New York since May 20 after a dramatic escape from house arrest to the US embassy in Beijing.

Visiting Congress in his highest-level contact yet with the US government, Mr Chen voiced concern for his nephew who was arrested soon after the dissident fled China's eastern province of Shandong for Beijing.

"The Chinese central government explicitly promised me that it would thoroughly investigate the extended oppression and abuse that I endured in Shandong province," Mr Chen, flanked by lawmakers, told reporters in the Capitol.

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