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\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\u201cThey beat and tortured my husband and me for more than two hours,\u201d writes the wife of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng \u2013 who dared to tell the world the horror of\u00a0his\u00a0country’s\u00a0forced abortion policy.<\/p>\n

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