China’s blind dissident, Chen Guangcheng, is now a free man. He, his wife and children were effectively exiled over the weekend and flown to America where Chen will begin studying law.
Unfortunately, other family members and friends who helped him escape brutal house arrest and secretly reach the U.S. embassy in Beijing last month are still at the mercy of government agents. And Chinese women and other opponents of the official forced abortion and sterilization practices conducted in the name of the so-called “One-Child Policy” have lost their most courageous champion in China.
Welcome as Chen Guangcheng’s freedom is, his fight for human rights in China must go on. He will need our help to ensure that his voice is heard even more widely now in China – not diminished by his exile in the West.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.