Human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng - The great escape

China/US. Chen Guangcheng: "We should link our arms to continue in the fight for the goodness in the world and to fight against injustice,"

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"during the night Mr Chen climbed over the two-metre high concrete wall built by the government to seal off his house. (The house was normally floodlit by his guards, who also jammed mobile-phone signals.) For some 20 hours, says Mr Hu, Mr Chen struggled on his own, navigating “eight lines of defence” and falling down “more than 200 times” before meeting another activist, He Peirong, who drove him to Beijing."




The Economist: "The great escape" (full text)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/05/chen-guangcheng
"THE STORY of how Chen Guangcheng, a 40-year-old blind villager, escaped through the prison-like security cordon surrounding his home and ended up hundreds of miles away in Beijing under American diplomatic protection will long be recounted as one of the most dramatic episodes in America's dealings with China over human rights"




China Aid: "BBC: China dissident Chen Guangcheng arrives in the US" (video 7:03)
http://www.chinaaid.org/2012/05/bbc-china-dissident-chen-guangcheng.html
"The self-taught lawyer has campaigned against forced abortions under China's one-child policy and was jailed for four years in 2006 for disrupting traffic and damaging property. He was placed under house arrest after his release in 2010."





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