WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng announced Wednesday that he had new affiliations with three U.S. institutions after leaving New York University under disputed circumstances. He said they would provide him a fresh platform to speak out against the Chinese’s government’s “inhumane brutality.”
The blind dissident’s escape from house arrest in China in 2012 sparked a diplomatic crisis after he took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The new U.S. affiliations cover a wide ideological range, which may go some way to countering concerns that he’s aligned himself too closely identified with American conservatives as he wages his war of words with Beijing.
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