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A few days after our first meeting, we got together again in Beijing. As we were leaving, Chen had a last request: Would it be possible to see what I looked like? He lifted his hands and felt my face. My nose, he commented, wasn't especially big for a...
Just a couple hours after our interview, Chen was detained by security officials who had traveled hundreds of miles from Linyi to Beijing. They hustled him into a van and drove him back home. Chen recalled later that he kept asking where they were going but was given no answer...
After depositing Chen at home, Linyi officials kept him under virtual house arrest for more than six months. Despite the harassment, which included several beatings, Chen remained hopeful. After all, a spokesperson at the State Family Planning Commission in Beijing had admitted that Linyi officials had broken the law. Chen...
But in March, after trying to leave his home without official permission, Chen was again bundled into a police van. No one heard from him for months. Finally in mid-June, the local police announced that he was being held in prison on charges of damaging property and organizing a...
But when a top Beijing lawyer tried to represent Chen in a Linyi court on Aug. 18, he was promptly tossed into jail himself. I began to wonder whether the international attention was doing more harm than good. In previous years, a plea from the U.S. State Department could help...