From Radio Free Asia:
As the Olympic torch heads towards the eastern Chinese province of Shandong en route to Beijing, authorities have stepped up security around the home of an activist who blew the whistle on abuses of China’s “one-child” family planning policy.
The wife of Chen Guangcheng, jailed for four years last year after his meticulous documentation of abuses by family planning officials throughout the 1980s and 90s, said the number of security personnel had doubled since the end of June.
“There are more people than before,” said Yuan Weijing, who has herself been held under house arrest for three years with the couple’s young daughter.
“Now there are a total of about 40 people working two shifts. They are all people I haven’t seen before. There are also a bunch of strangers who have been sent to watch the main street in the village.”
