IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1650 
Calling on the Government of the People’s Republic of China to immediately 
release Chen Guangcheng and his relatives from house arrest and to 
cease persecuting and harassing Chen Guangcheng, his relatives, and 
supporters. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. WOLF, Mr. PITTS, and Mr. 
FORTENBERRY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Calling on the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
to immediately release Chen Guangcheng and his rel-
atives from house arrest and to cease persecuting and 
harassing Chen Guangcheng, his relatives, and sup-
porters. 
Whereas Chen Guangcheng, a citizen of the People’s Republic 
of China, overcame great obstacles, including the loss of 
his sight due to a childhood disease, to become a self-edu-
cated lawyer; 
Whereas in 2005, Chen collected testimony and evidence on 
a one-child policy enforcement campaign in Linyi county, 
Shandong province, which resulted in 130,000 forced 
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abortions and sterilizations, according to press reports 
cited by the United States Department of State; 
Whereas in 2005, Chen met with legal scholars and foreign 
journalists to discuss filing a class-action lawsuit against 
those responsible for the one-child policy enforcement 
campaign in Linyi county and to publicize the enforce-
ment campaign; 
Whereas in 2005, Chinese officials placed Chen under effec-
tive house arrest, surrounding his house with police offi-
cials, not permitting him to leave freely, and restricting 
others’ access to his home and village; 
Whereas in August 2006, Chinese officials convicted Chen of 
property destruction and assembling a crowd to disrupt 
traffic and sentenced him to four years, three months in 
prison; 
Whereas Chinese officials announced Chen’s trial date several 
days before the trial, detained the lawyers he had selected 
to represent him, and refused to permit them to enter the 
courtroom; 
Whereas Chen was beaten by his fellow prisoners, prevented 
from communicating with his family, and suffered chron-
ic and serious illness while in prison; 
Whereas since 2005, Chen’s wife, Yuan Weijing, has been 
placed under varying degrees of house arrest, surveil-
lance, and visitors to their house have been beaten and 
harassed, and their children prevented from enrolling in 
school; 
Whereas, on September 9, 2010, the date Chen’s sentence ex-
pired, Chinese officials transported Chen from prison to 
his house, which officials have surrounded with police and 
surveillance cameras; 
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Whereas Chen has called on ‘‘international organizations and 
people of conscience’’ to react to his continued house ar-
rest ‘‘in a united manner . . . If they can help me today, 
their actions will help another person tomorrow’’; 
Whereas in 2006, Chen was included in Time magazine’s list 
of ‘‘2006’s Top 100 People Who Shape Our World’’ in 
the category of ‘‘Heroes and Pioneers’’, and in 2007, 
Chen was recognized with the Ramon Magsaysay Award, 
which cited, ‘‘his irrepressible passion for justice in lead-
ing ordinary Chinese citizens to assert their legitimate 
rights under the law’’; 
Whereas the violence that Chen sought to document in 2005 
is ongoing, and in 2010 there are reliable reports of large 
scale and violent abortion enforcement campaigns in 
Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi prov-
inces; 
Whereas it is not known that the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China has ever punished an official for forc-
ing a woman to undergo abortion or sterilization; and 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
links officials’ job promotion with their ability to meet or 
exceed population planning targets, evaluates officials by 
a system that rewards them for overseeing compulsory 
abortions, and frequently urges officials to ‘‘rigorously’’ 
enforce compulsory abortion on pregnant women who do 
not have a birth permit: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to immediately release Chen 
Guangcheng and his relatives from house arrest and 
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