Activist Leaves Us Embassy

The United States is ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he has changed his decision to leave US protection and wants to leave into exile, a senior US official said on Thursday.

Activist Chen Guangcheng told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday that he did not feel safe in China despite assurances made under a deal to remove him from the US embassy, pleading for American help to take him abroad.

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he now fears for his family's safety, and wants to leave the country. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on today, he told The Associated Press that US officials informed him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy.

The United States is ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he has changed his decision to leave US protection and wants to leave into exile, a senior US official said on Thursday.

Activist Chen Guangcheng told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday that he did not feel safe in China despite assurances made under a deal to remove him from the US embassy, pleading for American help to take him abroad.

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he now fears for his family's safety, and wants to leave the country. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on today, he told The Associated Press that US officials informed him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy.