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Friday, 27 November 2015
Miss World contestant prevented from entering China
A Chinese-born Canadian model says she was
barred from entering China to participate in the
Miss World pageant.
Anastasia Lin, an outspoken critic of China’s
religious policy, said on Friday she was unable to
board her connecting flight from Hong Kong after
a Chinese official told her by telephone she would
not be granted a visa on arrival.
“If they start to censor beauty pageants – how
pathetic is that?” Lin told The Associated Press in
Hong Kong.
In a pre-departure statement, Lin said denying
her entry would mean China was trying to prevent
her from speaking out about human rights issues.
Lin, who moved to Canada when she was 13, is an
outspoken critic of Chinese religious policy, and a
follower of the Falun Gong meditation group.
Dubbed a cult, Falun Gong was outlawed by
China’s ruling Communist Party in 1999.
Lin said after she won the Canadian beauty title,
Chinese security agents visited her father – who
still lives in China – in an apparent attempt to
intimidate her into silence.
SOURCE:
Al Jazeera
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