{"id":617,"date":"2012-05-04T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2012-05-04T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T22:03:51","slug":"chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-rescuer-released-from-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-rescuer-released-from-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Guangcheng\u2019s Rescuer Released from Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_620\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Chris-Smith-Reggie-and-Wang-Xuezhen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-620\" title=\"Chris Smith, Reggie and Wang Xuezhen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Chris-Smith-Reggie-and-Wang-Xuezhen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Chris-Smith-Reggie-and-Wang-Xuezhen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Chris-Smith-Reggie-and-Wang-Xuezhen-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Chris Smith, Reggie Littlejohn and Wang Xuezhen surround a photo of Pearl \/He Peirong after the Congressional hearing of May 3<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He Peirong, known as Pearl, has been released from detention and has been interviewed by the BBC.\u00a0 Pearl has become known as the rescuer of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, having driven the car that brought him from Dongshigu village to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, has been advocting for Pearl\u2019s release.\u00a0 Littlejohn testified about Pearl at a hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China yesterday, and Rep. Chris Smith took up Pearl\u2019s cause.\u00a0 Littlejohn stated, \u201cI am relieved and delighted that Pearl has been released \u2013 the day after the Congressional hearing at which her case was so strongly raised.\u00a0 Some say that quiet, back door diplomacy is the way to deal with the detention of Chinese human rights defenders.\u00a0 But human rights activists have found that high profile, public pressure is far more effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pearl herself seems to have endorsed this approach in the BBC interview earlier today.\u00a0\u00a0 According to this interview, she was confined to a hotel room.\u00a0 The police were \u201cpolite,\u201d but persistent in their effort to obtain information, which Pearl did not divulge.\u00a0 About her own safety, she said, \u201cI was very concerned, but once the thing went public, I was no longer worried.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/785812-he-peirong-describes-chen-escape?utm_campaign=detailpage&amp;utm_content=retweet&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/785812-he-peirong-describes-chen-escape?utm_campaign=detailpage&amp;utm_content=retweet&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Testifying with Littlejohn was Wang Xuezhen, who said that she was one of the netizens who tried to visit Chen.\u00a0 She was beaten and strip searched, but said that others were treated far more brutally than she.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He Peirong, known as Pearl, has been released from detention and has been interviewed by the BBC.\u00a0 Pearl has become known as the rescuer of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, having driven the car that brought him from Dongshigu village to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-rescuer-released-from-detention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,92,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chen-guangcheng","category-he-peirong","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}