Chen Guangcheng's escape from the grips of Chinese authorities represents the culmination of a nearly month-long tale of international intrigue combining car chases along the streets of Beijing with international diplomacy at the highest levels of the world's two most important nations.
For weeks since Chen's April 22 escape from house arrest in his home province of Shandong, U.S. officials have been reluctant to speak on the record about his ordeal. Chen spent several days in safe houses, then six days at the U.S. embassy in Beijing before being admitted to a local hospital.
Saturday morning the blind legal activist was taken from the Beijing hospital and put on a plane for the United States, where he is scheduled to land early this evening in Newark.
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