not have been a crime, he had been let out of prison and served his time. so the house arrest in 2010 was extra-legal, not according to law at all. it s been reported in the press that he was under house arrest. but the house arrest was informal retribution from local authorities. i want to read something from the beijing daily. i want to get a sense of how this is playing in china. what the coverage has been like. it said the so-called rights defense hero has been packaged by the united states and western media and given an eye-catching political label and set up as a representative figure against society and against the system. chen guangcheng has become a tool and a pawn of sicking tob with the tenor of coverage of his case in china right now? in terms of the mainstream