Emergency House hearing today on Chen Guangcheng crisis: Did State Department abandon him to uncertain fate?
Read my previous posts here and here.
News reports today are relaying contradictory yet alarming information about the well-being of Chinese pro-life dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family.
Previous reports indicated Chen wanted to remain in China after having escaped to the U.S. Embassy on April 22.
But after Chen was reunited with his wife – only after being returned by the U.S. to the Chinese – and learning how she was treated in his absence, he apparently changed his mind and wants to leave the country – on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s plane, no less. Here is audio of a taped interview with The Guardian wherein Chen where he says he now wants out.
This entire Time piece is well worth reading and appears to give the most accurate account of events to date. Following are key excerpts:
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