Chinese Lawyer Escapes
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China dissident's escape "more exciting than Shawshank Redemption"
The woman who drove blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to Beijing after his dramatic escape from house arrest in eastern China told how she sat down with security officers afterwards to watch the jailbreak movie, "The Shawshank Redemption". He Peirong said that five days after picking up Chen, she was taken from her home in Nanjing by state sec...
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Blind lawyer strikes a popular chord in China
The blind, corn-country activist at the centre of a diplomatic tussle between the US and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled so often. "'What do the authorities want me to do? Lead a protest in the streets? I don't want to do that,'" New York University law ...
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China dissident's escape "more exciting than Shawshank Redemption"
The woman who drove blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to Beijing after his dramatic escape from house arrest in eastern China told how she sat down with security officers afterwards to watch the jailbreak movie, "The Shawshank Redemption". He Peirong said that five days after picking up Chen, she was taken from her home in Nanjing by state sec...
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Blind lawyer strikes a popular chord in China
The blind, corn-country activist at the centre of a diplomatic tussle between the US and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled so often. "'What do the authorities want me to do? Lead a protest in the streets? I don't want to do that,'" New York University law ...
