Chen Ruichang is held in a Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing facility and compelled to accept the government's version when state television blames his beliefs for a fiery public suicide. But Chen, a former state TV insider, thinks it's all a government ruse. Beijing muzzles a CNN correspondent who smuggled out video of the event. As Chinese officials began pushing the filmmaker's family and business colleagues, her eyewitness evidence helps unravel a complex scheme.
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Chen Ruichang is held in a Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing facility and compelled to accept the government's version when state television blames his beliefs for a fiery public suicide. But Chen, a former state TV insider, thinks it's all a government ruse. Beijing muzzles a CNN correspondent who smuggled out video of the event. As Chinese officials began pushing the filmmaker's family and business colleagues, her eyewitness evidence helps unravel a complex scheme.
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