Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
In regards to Mr. Chen... First of all, the Chinese government is now reluctantly acknowledging that his house arrest was illegal. Second, his supporters are now claiming that, despite efforts to grant him asylum by numerous members of the United States government, he does not even want to leave the country at this point.

Whether the claims of his family being threatened are true or not, possibly... If whoever broke the law by ordering him detained is trying to scare him, they have succeeded.

It seems that we are offering him help, but he is refusing it.
"The Chinese side has guaranteed my freedom and my legal rights," he said. "However, yesterday evening I saw that my phone was being controlled and I heard what had happened to my family and I now feel unsafe. I want to leave China, which is also what the White House had originally advised me to do."

"My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the US on Hillary Clinton's plane," Mr Chen told the Daily Beast
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...y-Clinton.html