Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng was severely beaten in jail by other prisoners on the orders of guards.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of , Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng was severely beaten in jail by other prisoners on the orders of guards and denied medical treatment. The thirty-five-year-old blind man is serving a four-year sentence for accusing local health workers in Linyl City in Shandong province of illegally forcing hundreds of people to undergo sterilization sterilization Any surgical procedure intended to end fertility permanently (see contraception). Such operations remove or interrupt the anatomical pathways through which the cells involved in fertilization travel (see reproductive system). or have late-term abortions in order to abide by To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. See also: Abide Chinas one-child policy. An appeal of his sentence was denied in January. Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist. |
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