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April 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Chen, a self-taught legal advocate who campaigned against forced abortions
and exposed abuses in the country’s one-child policy, had been restricted to
his village home in Linyi since September 2010 when he was released from
jail. He has reportedly been in poor health for some time.
Chen’s reported escape and the furore it has unleashed could add to the
headaches of China’s ruling Communist Party, which is striving to ensure
stability and authority ahead of a leadership transition later this year.
Bob Fu, president of the Texas-based religious and political rights advocacy
group ChinaAid, said Chen had moved far away from Linyi but would not give
more details.
“He is very far from his home, but he is safe,” Mr Fu said in a
telephone interview.
He said Chen’s wife, daughter and mother were still at the family’s village
home, which was surrounded by authorities after they discovered Chen had
disappeared.
“The entire village and government leaders were stunned by the
developments when Chen Guangcheng was not found. So they are surrounding his
home,” he said.
Another activist, He Peirong, told Reuters that Chen had talked with her.
“His spirits are okay, but he is passing blood and is very weak,”
she said. “His hands won’t stop shaking.”
She said Chen was worried about his family.
“He is really worried about his wife, child and mother now he has
escaped. He is scared the guards will take revenge now he has escaped. The
guards have beaten his old mother this year. They broke some of his wife’s
bones which have yet to heal.”
Chen’s fate has become a test of wills, pitting a crackdown on dissent against
rights activists who have rallied around his cause and that of artist Ai
Weiwei.
Officials in Shandong province did not comment immediately on Chen’s reported
escape.
The news was widely discussed on China’s popular Twitter-like service Weibo,
with users referring to him as “the blind man” to avoid censorship
of his name, reflecting his status as a Chinese cult hero.
“He has escaped from the clutches of the devil,” wrote “Brave
to speak”.
“Never has the fate of single blind man moved the hearts of an entire
nation,” added “Jing Huili”.
Human Rights Watch expressed concern about Chen’s health.
“If Chen has successfully escaped, it comes not a moment too soon as
there have been reports that Chen has been in extremely poor health due to
severe multiple beatings by his captors,” said Phelim Kine, Senior Asia
Researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Chen angered Shandong officials in 2005 by exposing a programme of forced
abortions as part of China’s one-child policy. He was formally released in
September 2010 after four years in jail on a charge of “blocking traffic”.
Chen and his wife endured a “brutal four-hour beating” by local
authorities last July, ChinaAid has said.
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