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...jail, four years early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said, using the name they often called me. "I am out of jail now." I told him I was very glad - and then didn't know what to say next. Filling the silence, Sun commented on the weather in his Shandong village. It was chilly, he said, but not as cold as it had been in prison...
...SENTENCES UPHELD. For Chen Guangcheng, 34, blind human-rights advocate who exposed forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning officials in China's Shandong province; and Zhao Yan, 44, Chinese New York Times researcher accused of leaking state secrets; in Linyi and Beijing. While their cases were unrelated, irregularities in Chen and Zhao's trials-on charges of public disturbance and influence-peddling, respectively-drew international condemnation. Of the simultaneous announcements last Friday that the convictions would stand, Human Rights Watch senior researcher Mickey Spiegel said: "It's just a very bad day for justice in China...
...RETRIAL ORDERED. For Chen Guangcheng, 34, blind human-rights advocate who exposed forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning authorities in China's Shandong province and was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for property destruction and public disturbance; after an appeals court ruled that his August conviction was marred by procedural violations, including the barring of his lawyers from the courtroom; in Linyi, China. Although the outcome of a future trial is still in doubt, Chen's supporters considered the ruling a rare victory. Said his lawyer, Li Jingsong, "At this stage, we could not have...
Then came the text message: "Chen Guangcheng has been sentenced to four years and three months' imprisonment." I first met Chen a year ago. A native of China's eastern Shandong province, the self-schooled legal activist came to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its "one-child" policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local...
...Chen again in Beijing, where he was trying to meet with State Family Planning Commission officials to tell them the situation in Linyi. He gave us contact information for women who underwent the forced procedures, so my assistant and I decided to travel that very evening to Shandong to meet several victims, including one woman who had to abort her baby two days before her due date. (Night reporting is a popular tactic for foreign journalists in China. The dark affords us anonymity in places we are not supposed to visit under stringent Chinese Foreign Ministry regulations; more importantly...