Yuan Weijing is the wife of imprisoned, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng. She lives under constant guard of a large group of thuggish Chinese security men, with her young children and elderly mother. The thug guards harass her and have in the past brutally beaten people who came to see her. On March 8th, they accosted, assaulted, and drove away a prominent Chinese journalist who came to visit her and bring her food. He is Wang Kegin. Chinese Human Rights Defenders has the story.
““While China marked International Women’s Day with official ceremonies, Ms. Yuan and her family enjoyed no respite from the relentless restriction of movement and the ban on contacting the outside world to which they have been subjected. Why is a government which enjoys ‘world power’ status so afraid of a woman taking care of her small children and an elderly mother, while her husband, who is blind, languishes in jail?” asked Renee Xia, CHRD’s international director.”
