John Kamm Remembers: No Way out

July 14th, 2025

A year into Dui Hua’s founding and in the aftermath of 9/11, China allowed New York Times correspondent Tina Rosenburg and photographer Zeng Nian to document my 2001 visit to Beijing for an article she was writing about our work. They sat in on meetings with Chinese officials and followed me as I combed the city’s bookstores for cases. But when it came to a prison visit, China’s magnanimity ended, and I would have to go it alone.

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