Chen Guangcheng said he takes afternoon flight for New York, Commercial Radio Hong Kong reports at 2:40 pm. He said all sorts of feelings well up in his mind when he is leaving his country.

Chinese blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng and his wife and two children are now at Beijing Airport to fly to the United States. He told Commercial Radio Hong Kong he is to take a flight to New York at about 4:00 pm and is now accompanied by hospital and border check personnel.

He said that he received notice from the hospital that he might leave Chaoyang Hospital where he had been hospitalised for three weeks, and his family of four was to take a ride to the airport. He says when he thinks that he is leaving his country, all sorts of feelings well up in his mind and that he has…