Chen Guangcheng turns Daredevil on his captors.
Chen is believed to have used the cover of darkness in which his blindness – he lost his sight at the age of five – gave him an advantage over his captors. He previously attempted to dig a tunnel without success.
Very interested to see how this one will go. The center's never fully backed the local authorities' insane measures against him; this might be embarassing enough for the locals to be in real trouble. I hope.
Update: Jamie here. Shortly after Chen escaped a gang of thugs working for the local government invaded the family compound. Chen's nephew, Chen Kegui, stabbed a couple of them in self defence and is now apparently on the run. Details here.
Quote: Good, stab these dogfucking rural cadres to death!
Posted by: Alex | April 27, 2012 at 02:02 PM
Speaking of dogfucking rural cadres but entirely off topic, on hearing of that Cambodian environmental activist who was just killed I had a hankering for some Kampuchean kicking it old school style blogging and so pointed myself in the direction of Eyes of the Pineapple (http://www.padevat.info/) which is kind of a sister blog to this one, if you will, only to find that's it's been off the nets for a number of months now and no one knows what happened to it (I had to use the Wayback machine just to get a peek at the archives.).
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 28, 2012 at 12:29 AM