5/12/2023 0 Comments Shawshank redemption novel![]() ![]() The story of the blind man eluding a domestic-security apparatus with an annual budget of $111 billion “electrified China’s rights activists,” according to The New York Times. Three hundred miles later-at one point he was reduced to crawling after breaking bones in his foot-the fugitive reached his sanctuary: the American Embassy in Beijing. And so, to escape, the 40-year-old Chen waited for a moonless sky, and then scaled the government-built wall around his house, relying on his other senses to guide him across rivers and roads. Political activism against the Chinese government had earned Chen six years of what he called “brutal” detainment-translation: regular beatings-first in prison and later under house arrest. On a night in April 2012, they were all but impossible for Chen Guangcheng: one blind Chinese dissident against the 100 guards surrounding his home and village in Shandong province. ![]() The odds of a successful jailbreak are never good. ![]()
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