June 3rd CPD China conference in DC

Before and since

With one of the men who has had

The extraordinary courage to stand against them

Inside China

For quite some time

He's been described as a self-taught lawyer

A Barefoot lawyer at that

Working for the people of China in rural communities

Advocating on behalf of their human rights

There

Rights particularly as women and to the land and in so many other ways

Acting afoul of the government of China which arrested him

Incarcerating him is a political prisoner

From which he managed in one of the Great

Feats of all time

To escape

Overcoming the handicapped

Is obvious

And

Making his way to the American embassy

From which she was ultimately

Allowed to leave and come to this country

Where he now

Leeds I think

Both by example and through his writings and his speeches

The cause of

Freedom for the people of China

From outside and we are

Profoundly grateful to him for being with us he is of course Chen Wang qiang

And I understand he will be accompanied by a translator who will help him

Share with us

Some of his insights into what

Has been the fate of China

As a result of chinaman's

Lingering

We will

Coming up here to the microphone is that possible

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Ladies and gentlemen

I'm very happy to to be here this afternoon with all of you

And I would like to thank

Frank

For his kind introduction

Gymkhana

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