Blind activist Chen Guangcheng \u2014 who has infuriated the Chinese government by exposing their much-denied practice of forcing women to have unwanted abortions \u2014 will be transferred to a small prison built specifically for him and his wife, Yuan Weijing, according to a Radio Free Asia.<\/p>\n
Chen\u2019s friend He Peirong reports that the couple will be forcibly removed from their home and transferred to a building built nearby \u201dwhich basically amounts to a jail\u201d so that authorities can \u201ckeep tighter controls on them.\u201d<\/p>\n
They will be separated from their five-year-old daughter in the move. Their young son, living with relatives, was reportedly strip-searched leaving the family home.<\/p>\n
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, decried this action. “The Chinese Communist Party has already beaten and tortured Chen and his wife, denied them medical treatment, stolen their television, phone, computer and books, and appears to be slowly starving them to death.<\/p>\n
“The couple is constantly surrounded by 66 guards and multiple surveillance cameras tracking their every move inside and outside their home. Why is the\u00a0Chinese Communist Party\u00a0so threatened by a blind, sick, penniless man that they have to build a personal prison for him?<\/p>\n
“They seek to make an example of Chen, to demonstrate how they will punish anyone who challenges their forced abortion policies. But they are really making an example of their own, shameful brutality.”<\/p>\n