Activists discuss China lawyer Chen Guangcheng’s escape

Chinese bloggers and activists have been speculating about how Chen Guangcheng might have made his daring escape from his heavily guarded home in a Shandong village. In the video released online after his escape, Chen describes the extraordinary layers of security that blockaded his home. Previous attempts by activists and journalists to make contact with Mr Chen had resulted in violent confrontations with the guards. A Hong Kong-based online activist who calls himself BeiFeng (North Wind) claims to be one of the first people to distribute Mr Chen’s appeal online. He received the video from a friend connected to Mr Chen. He told the BBC that he believed that Mr Chen must have scaled the high wall surrounding his home by himself, while guards were resting, before being driven to Beijing by friends. Meng Lang, a poet and publisher based in Hong Kong, and co-founder of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, also believes Mr Chen escaped his home alone. “A blind person is able to use his senses in ways that sighted people may not be able to understand,” he told the BBC.
Escape to Beijing It is widely believed that activist He Peirong, known online as Pearl Her, helped drive Mr Chen out of his confinement. Her actions have been widely praised by China’s netizens. In a post on her Twitter account, that has now been deleted, she wrote: “On April 22 Chen Guangcheng escaped his.

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