Barefoot Lawyer Reports

Chen Guangcheng discusses the latest news surrounding the recently shot down Chinese spy balloon, as well as the tragic story of a high school boy whose organs are suspected to have been harvested by the Chinese Communist Party.

Chen Guangcheng discusses how he became interested in law and started his career in protecting vulnerable populations from the tyranny and exploitation of the Chinese Communist Party. 

For the last several years, the Chinese Communist Party has banned fireworks from Chinese New Year's celebrations. Nevertheless, this year hundreds of Chinese citizens lit fireworks in protests. Chen Guangcheng also gives updates regarding several human rights activists he reported on in his public letter to the Communist Party from last year.

On January 15, hundreds of Chinese citizens shouted out their windows in protest of the Communist Party's mishandling of COVID-19. They also commemorated the anniversary of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, the whistleblower who was persecuted by the government because he warned people of the pandemic in December of 2019.

A new potentially dangerous variant is reportedly spreading across China, right as the Communist Party has decided to re-open the country's borders for international travel. Chen Guangcheng is concerned that the Party has deliberately waited to re-open China's borders to spread this new variant to other countries. He urges Americans to express concern to their representatives about incoming travel...

Chen Guangcheng, Dr. Bill Saunders, and Peter Tozzi (former intern at The Heritage Foundation) summarize the recent events and significance of Cardinal Joseph Zen's imprisonment and trial. Cardinal Zen is an advocate of basic freedoms and human rights for Hong Kong and has been the target of harassment and mistreatment from the Chinese Communist Party.

Chen Guangcheng, Dr. Bill Saunders, and all of the Center for Human Rights wishes you and your family a Merry Christmas. We hope that this new year will be filled with blessings for you and change for the Chinese people who remain oppressed by the Communist Party.

To listen to the rest of this podcast, check out the Humanize Today Podcast at https://humanize.today/podcast/chen-guangcheng-on-the-current-tyranny-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china/ The Humanize Today Podcast is produced by the Discovery Institute as a part of its Center on Human Exceptionalism, which is directed by Wesley Smith.

Chen Guangcheng gives background information surrounding the upcoming trial of Hong Kong human rights activist and Apple Daily media founder Jimmy Lai. The trial has been delayed until September 2023, and we encourage our viewers to watch the recently released documentary about him, The Hong Konger: https://thehongkongermovie.com/

Chen Guangcheng discusses the anti-lockdown protestors who demand that Xi Jinping resign.

Communism is perhaps the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. It has murdered more innocent people than any political system in history and has imprisoned millions more. In the last century, it threatened to engulf the world, but even today it controls the world's largest nation and threatens to spread.   Dr. William Saunders of the Catholic University of America Center for Human Rights a...

During the past Communist Party Congress, Xi Jinping, President of China, has tightened his grip over his government by appointing young supporters of his to key positions.

Recently at a protest in Britain, a pro-Hong Kong protestor was allegedly dragged into the Chinese embassy and severely beaten. Chen Guangcheng comments on the implications of this story.

Bob Fu, Founder and President of China Aid, talks about his instrumental role in arranging Chen Guangcheng's escape from the Chinese Communist Party's clutches to the United States.

Bob Fu, Founder and President of China Aid, talks about his instrumental role in arranging Chen Guangcheng's escape from the Chinese Communist Party to the United States.

In preparation for its annual congress, the Chinese Communist Party is arresting and forcibly relocating human rights activists to prevent them from speaking out about human rights abuses and influencing public policy.

China Aid founder Bob Fu joins Chen Guangcheng and Bill Saunders for a conversation about Gao Zhisheng, a prominent human rights lawyer who has been missing for years. He has been subject to extreme torture by the Chinese Communist Party, and China Aid recently held an event to raise awareness of his disappearance.

On January 1, 2022, Chen Guangcheng co-authored a declaration about the Chinese Communist Party's human rights abuses. In this episode of the Barefoot Lawyer Reports, Guangcheng revisits this letter, which you can read here: https://arts-sciences.catholic.edu/academics/interdisciplinary/human-rights-center/initiatives/open-letter2022-new-years-declaration-on-chinas-human-rights-crisis.pdf

On January 1, 2022, Chen Guangcheng co-authored a declaration about the Chinese Communist Party's human rights abuses. In this episode of the Barefoot Lawyer Reports, Guangcheng revisits this letter.

Chen Guangcheng addresses the prospect of a military conflict with China in light of escalating tensions in the region surrounding Taiwan.

Jane Jagas, a graduate of The Catholic University of America's M.A. in Human Rights program, joins Chen Guangcheng and Dr. Bill Saunders for a discussion on forced organ harvesting in Communist China.

Chen Guangcheng talks how he exposed the Chinese Communist Party's forced abortion practices, as well as his role in taking down the One Child Policy.

Chen Guangcheng explains how the Chinese Communist Party's one child policy led to thousands of forced abortions in China.

In an effort to erase the story of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng's daring escape from house arrest, the Chinese Communist Party plans on submerging his village as part of a "water reservoir construction project."

Chen Guangcheng explains the importance of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and why, despite pressure from the Communist Party, it should not be cancelled.