Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US
By KAREN MATTHEWSBy KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press?
?Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, in a wheelchair, is helped to head to a commercial flight Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Beijing International Airport in Beijing. Chen was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, in a wheelchair, is helped to head to a commercial flight Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Beijing International Airport in Beijing. Chen was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, in a wheelchair, is helped to head to a commercial flight Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Beijing International Airport in Beijing. Chen was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
This video image taken from AP video shows blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, second right, is pushed in a wheelchair on the tarmac to an elevator at Beijing International airport Saturday May 19, 2012. A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which took off late Saturday afternoon from the Beijing airport. (AP Photo via AP video)
This video image taken from AP video shows blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, left, pushed in a wheelchair from an elevator to a sky bridge that is connected to a plane at Beijing International airport Saturday May 19, 2012. A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which took off late Saturday afternoon from the Beijing airport. (AP Photo via AP video)
FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012. and released by the U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, at a hospital in Beijing. The activist who was at the center of a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington said Thursday, May 17, 2012 Chinese officials have told him the passports that he and his family just applied for should be ready within two weeks. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng (chuhn gwahng-chuhng) says everybody should fight against injustice.
Chen arrived Saturday evening at his temporary home in New York City. He will be staying with his family in an apartment at New York University. Chen arrived in the U.S. earlier Saturday, hours after he was hurriedly taken from a Chinese hospital and put on a plane.
He addressed a cheering crowd through a translator and thanked the U.S. and Chinese governments.
Chen escaped from his village in April and was given sanctuary inside the U.S. Embassy after seven years of prison and house arrest. He is planning to study law at NYU. But before that, he says he is planning to spend time recuperating.
Chen was on crutches, his right leg in a cast.
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