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Tue 06 Jun 2007Chinese rights activist beaten in jailCHINA:A blind Chinese human rights activist who provided legal services for farmers and wrote a report about forced sterilisations, has been severely beaten in jail by other prisoners on the orders of prison guards, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.Chen Guangcheng was sentenced to four years and three months in jail last year on charges critics say were trumped up by officials angry at his exposure of forced late-term abortions.