US-China summit: Chen Guangcheng's family get passports in 'gift from the Xi-O meeting' "We got the passports today so it is like a gift from the 'Xi-O meeting'," Chen Guangfu, the "barefoot" lawyer's brother, told The Daily Telegraph on Friday, adding: "I'm really happy." President Obama can choose to stand in solidarity with ordinary Chinese people and support their struggle. Otherwise his silence could be taken as consent for the Chinese government's continued repression," Sophie Richardson, the group's China director, said in a statement. Chen Guangfu is the elder brother of Chen Guangcheng, a self-trained lawyer who sparked an international diplomatic crisis in April last year after fleeing house arrest and seeking refuge in the US embassy in Beijing. The lawyer and activist now lives in New York where he has continued to speak out against human rights violations in China. Chen Guangfu said he now hoped to visit his brother in New York, but said both he and his mother would return to China. Mr Chen described his new passport as "a basic human right." But other Chinese activists have been less fortunate. Wu Lihong, an outspoken environmental campaigner, said he had spent three years unsuccessfully fighting to obtain a passport Mr Wu claimed local security authorities had told him they had received "instructions" from "central government" to deny him a passport until 2014.