Monday, May 21, 2012

Forced abortion opponent arrives in America

Blind Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng has safely made it to the US, along with his immediate family. Chen is a critic of China's one-child policy and the forced abortions which are used to enforce the policy.
Chen has emerged as a political hero among Chinese dissidents and some U.S. officials for his activism in China — where his name is banned from the Internet — a status that became magnified after his escape from house arrest last month and secret flight totheU.S. Embassy. A self-taught lawyer, he had been imprisoned for years as an outspoken opponent of the state's treatment of women and its one-child policy.

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