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Readers may recall Chen Guangcheng, the blind human-rights activist in China about whom we have written before.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Readers may recall Chen Guangcheng, the blind humanrights activist in China about whom we have written before. Last August, Mr. Chen was sentenced to over four years in prison for exposing forced abortions and other abuses associated with China's one-child policy. (The government manufactured charges of "willfully damaging property" and "organizing a mob to disturb traffic," but his real offense was simply to embarrass China's rulers.) Now Chen's appeal ...

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