JAILED FOR DEFENDING WOMEN

Chen Guangchengwas jailed fordefending womenwho were sterilizedagainst their will.

China's leadership recently ordered local governments to go "all out" to prevent civilian protesters from tarnishing the Olympic Games in Beijing next month.Can you help Amnesty International go "all out" to focus world attention on the peaceful activists languishing in Chinese prisons by Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=mlL1LeMULiKZLnI&s=6fIJIYOxGcKIIVOxGkH&m=dgJJKVPvFbKYH">making a donation to our China Olympics Legacy Campaign today?Chen Guangcheng is one of the courageous activists Amnesty International is working to free. The blind human rights defender and legal advisor was arrested in 2005 for filing a lawsuit on behalf of thousands of women in Shandong Province who endured forced abortions and sterilizations to meet local birth quotas.Chen's wife and lawyers were barred from appearing in court to defend him - and after a 1-day trial he received a 4-year prison sentence. Chen's situation remains grim, as he's reportedly been beaten in captivity. He won the Magsaysay award - described as Asia's Nobel Prize - in July 2007 for defending human rights. But Chinese authorities even prevented Chen's wife from traveling to the Philippines to accept the prize on his behalf.