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The difficulty of supporting activists such as Chen Guangchen in China

The Christian Science Monitor

By Peter Ford posted May 21, 2012 at 11:29 am EDT Beijing When Jiang Tianyong, a well-known human rights lawyer, went to visit his friend Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal activist, soon after he had emerged from the US embassy, he got no farther than the hospital gates. Police dragged him away.