Monday, April 02, 2007

A Nation of Prisoners


Doesn't it seem like so many of China's internationally recognized people are in prison?

Chen Guang Cheng is one of those people. A blind, rural activist who exposed China's forced abortions and mistreatment of women.

Despite being handed a 4 year prison sentence for the trumped up charges of, "damaging property and organising a mob to disturb traffic", Chen is highly praised and recognized internationally. He has received many awards for his efforts. In any civilized nation, he would be regarded as a hero. Instead, he is a prisoner.

3 comments:

ahsir said...

Don't you think that guy looks like 伍伯?

Anonymous said...

Anything good thing you can say about China LOL

Justin said...

Re: alex

Unfortunately, I haven't heard any good news about China since I started taking notice a couple years back. Just nothing good. Good news is always driven by bad news or good news is always shadowing bad news, etc.