Dongshigu Village

DONGSHIGU VILLAGE, China - Blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng returned home Thursday after a four-year prison stint to find that very little had changed - he was cut off from communication, monitored by security agents, his family still harassed and intimidated.

DONGSHIGU VILLAGE, China - A blind, self-taught activist lawyer who documented forced abortions and other abuses was released from a Chinese prison Thursday and promptly locked down in his rural village with no access to communication, a relative said.

DONGSHIGU VILLAGE, China - Heavy security surrounded the rural home of a blind, self-taught activist lawyer to be released from a Chinese prison Thursday after a four-year sentence that supporters say stemmed from his work documenting forced abortions and other abuses.