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New York City, N.Y., Nov 29, 2012 \/ 12:04 am (CNA<\/a>).- A secular men's magazine has praised Chinese anti-abortion advocate Chen Guangcheng in its December 2012 issue, placing him on the list of \u201cMan of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tGentleman's Quarterly, the popular men's entertainment and fashion magazine, lauded the blind activist for his fight against forced abortions and sterilizations in China, calling him a \u201chumanitarian cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tDespite its usual fare of risqu\u00e9 photo spreads and articles, the latest issue features a three-page interview detailing Chen's house arrest, torture and eventual escape to the United States in May 2012.<\/p>\n

\tBlinded by a serious illness when he was young, Chen is a self-educated human rights attorney who spoke out against China's one-child policy and the coerced abortions and sterilizations that are often used to enforce it. His work attracted the anger of Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n

\tChen spent more than four years in prison and was subsequently placed under house arrest in September 2010. Both he and his family were held without formal charges, endured violent assaults and were refused medical treatment.<\/p>\n

\tChen's routine beatings \u201cwent on for a year and a half, all because the self-taught lawyer had sued the Chinese government to stop forced abortions in his village,\u201d John B. Thompson of GQ wrote for the December issue.<\/p>\n

\tIn late April, Chen made international headlines by escaping from house arrest and reaching the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.<\/p>\n

\tHe left the embassy for a hospital in Beijing on May 2, after being promised by Chinese authorities that he and his family would be secure. Shortly afterwards, however, he voiced fears for his safety and asked to come to the U.S. with his family for a period of peaceful rest. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tAlthough he felt \u201csorrowful\u201d to leave his country, Chen believes that he will \u201cinevitably return to China, standing tall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI don\u2019t think China can continue like this forever,\u201d he told GQ.<\/p>\n

\tChen was offered a fellowship to study law and learn English at New York University\u2019s law school and was ultimately allowed to travel to the United States with his family, arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport on May 19.<\/p>\n

\tOn Aug. 1, bipartisan leaders of U.S. Congress came together to meet with and offer their support of the Chen and his work in China.<\/p>\n

\tWhile politicians \u201cmight not agree\u201d about which rights he is fighting to protect, Chen told GQ that his work opposing China\u2019s one-child policy is not only a fight to protect the \u201crights of unborn children\u201d or of women, but of all people.<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u201cMen have rights. The elderly have rights,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a human problem, a fundamental concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

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