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May 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Chen, who had initially indicated he wanted to remain in China, had now
accepted that it was unrealistic that this was possible given the
high-profile nature of his case.
“If Chen wants to find safety and freedom for his family, leaving China
might be the only option left. The situation is so intense, he has no other
choice but to leave now,” said Mr Fu, a former teacher at the Communist
Party School, who fights for Christian rights in China.
“The US cannot afford to take Chen and ask him to leave his family behind
– and Mr Chen won’t leave without his wife and children. The Chinese have to
make a decision to put the package together. Logistically they have to work
this out, but the Chinese government can handle it.”
The US State Department has refused to comment on the Chen case, and will not
confirm or deny whether Mr Chen – whose case has been publicly raised in the
past by Mrs Clinton – is in their safe custody.
On Monday the European Union called on China not to harass Chen’s family and
associates after reports that several fellow-activists, including those who
aided his escape, have been taken into custody. His nephew Chen Kegui is
said to be on the run from the authorities.
Mr Chen, a self-taught lawyer who was imprisoned after exposing the horrors of
force-sterilisations under China’s one-child policy, escaped
on April 22 from his home in Shandong province after almost 20
months under house arrest during which time he says he was badly beaten.
He reportedly sought US protection last Thursday afternoon after releasing a
video on YouTube challenging the country’s prime minister Wen Jiabao to
investigate his brutal treatment at the hands of the local authorities in
Shandong.
His friend and fellow dissident Hu Jia told The Daily Telegraph yesterday that
after being detained himself over the weekend by the Chinese security
services, he is certain the 40-year-old has met with the US Ambassador Gary
Locke.
“Judging by the questions the agents were asking me, I am positive Chen
is in the US embassy,” said Mr Hu, who was held for 24 hours. “They
mainly asked me about how Chen managed to escape, how he got to Beijing and
when and how he entered the US embassy and when he met Mr Locke.”
However it remains unclear whether Mr Chen is actually in the US Embassy
compound in Beijing, or another location in the city where he can be
afforded US protection.
Harry Wu, director of the Laogai Research Foundation in Washington who was
referred to as the ‘dean’ of the Chinese dissident community in the US, said
that according to his network in China Chen was not in the US Embassy.
“My sources tell me that he’s not in the American embassy, but is being
protected by individuals and not the US embassy,” he told The Daily
Telegraph, “I think there are many possibilities of what could happen
to him. Maybe he can be killed, maybe he has flown away, maybe he’s on a
ship. It is not certain at the moment.”
The only other dissident to have been allowed to shelter in the US embassy,
the astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, was allowed to leave China on medical
grounds, despite his role in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen
Square.
Any deal is likely to include Mr Chen’s wife and daughter who remain in the
family home in Dongshigu in eastern Shandong Province, completely cut off
from the outside world.
Barack Obama said he had seen the press reports on the Chen case, declined to
comment. “I have read the press reports on the situation in China but I am
not going to make a statement on the issue,” he said during a press
conference with the Japanese prime minister.
A state department spokesperson refused to comment on the issue eight times
during a daily briefing on foreign affairs.
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