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Chen Guangcheng: “Free Citizen”, Uncertain Future

Hu Jia, an activist who was detained for over 24 hours after meeting with the escaped Chen Guangcheng last week, has said that police admitted during his questioning that Chen and his supporters had done nothing wrong in the course of his flight to Beijing. From Gillian Wong at the Associated Press:“They are all free citizens,” Hu quoted the police officers as saying. “For them