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When we last left Guangchung, it was September of 2005,

and he was kidnapped in plain sight in Beijing. He was driven back to Shandong and held under health

rest for a few months, then taken away by security forces again. For 89 days, even his family did not know where he was.

Authorities kept him at various black jail sites,

first at a hotel and then a police training facility.

In June of 2006, Guangcheng was formally transferred to Inan Detention Center.

The jail cell was tiny, he recalls, about 4.5 meters long, less than 3 meters wide.

Detainees took turns sleeping

because there wasn't enough space for everyone to lie down at the same time.

Six other detainees were assigned to watch him 24 hours a day, taking shifts. They would not speak to him.

At the detention center, basically all of them were ordered to not tell me anything.

Otherwise, they will be given additional sentences.

Who wants a longer sentence when they're in prison?

So no one dare to say much to me, usually not even a word.

But months into his time at the detention center,

he says someone dared to tell him about the notice.

It was posted on the wall the people's outside their window.

The notice was the regulations of the People's Republic of China

on detention, and it stated that those who had one of the following

conditions should not be detained. First, blind people and second, pregnant people.

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