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Attempted Visits to Chen Guangcheng Surge

The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs reports on the gathering momentum of efforts to visit civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng and his family, who have been held under house arrest since Chen’s release from prison in late 2010. This completed sentence followed Chen’s attempts to fight local officials’ use of illegal family planning measures such as forced abortion.A campaign