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Blind Dissident Has China's Tweeters Seeing Red
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On Wednesday evening, Exercise Book, a user of the Sina Weibo microblog, posted a message for his 2.5 million followers: “I’ve finally figured out where the safest place in China is…”
The message was anything but cryptic. Only hours earlier, state-run Chinese media began reporting what much of the world had known for almost a week: Legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who is also blind, had escaped from house arrest in Shandong Province and was granted refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.