Chinese Dissident Chen Chuangcheng Asks for Asylum at Hospital

In this photo released by the U.S. embassy Beijing Press Office, blind Chinese dissident Chen Chuangcheng talks on a cellphone as he is assisted to a hospital with U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke (L) looks on along with other embassy officials, in Beijing on May 2, 2012. Chen left the U.S. Embassy and is under Chinese control in a Beijing hospital, but is now apparently asking for asylum in the United States. UPI