When Chinese Rights Activists Were Jailed, Their Wives Fought Back<br />Chen said that It was because of all the pressure from all sides — from state security police, my employer — and slowly I lost commitment and hope,<br />"I heeded the advice of the state security: no media interviews, no going abroad, no contact with other families involved in the case." But like other family members, she ran up against an opaque legal system<br />that held detainees in secrecy for many months with no visits by relatives or access to lawyers.<br />"The children kept us busy enough." Initially, when the police took Mr. Xie away, Ms. Chen<br />thought he would be freed quickly once investigators found that he had committed no crime.<br />Terence said that The story of the wives is one of the great stories of the whole<br />crackdown — it is a brilliant adaptation by the activists to repression,<br />Li Wenzu said that Leave the d
