Seanad debates

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

He and his wife released a video on the Internet last year about their imprisonment and were then beaten by local officials. There are concerns, even now that he has arrived in the United States, about the fate of his family members, particularly his nephew, Chen Kegui, who is in a prison in Shandong province accused of attempted murder for threatening three government agents who broke into his home after his uncle's escape. I do not want to hear general platitudes about how the Government will find some channel to raise human rights issues with China. What, precisely, is this small country going to do in its conversations with Chinese officials? Are we going to raise issues such as the fate of Chen Guangcheng's family? It would be a shame if we did not.

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