After China escape, painful memories remain for blind activist Blind and a prisoner in his own home, he escaped when a guard had a moment of inattention, feeling for obstacles and scrambling over walls, breaking his foot and crawling away covered in blood to find help. This Hollywood-style escapade is the true-life story of activist Chen Guangcheng, who after seven brutal years of jail and house arrest fled his village in eastern China in 2012 to take refuge in the US embassy before flying to start a new life in New York. An interview with AFP. Images and soundbites.