Beijing Adult Entertainment: Chinese author barred from going to festival, hauled from plane
Beijing – China police on Monday removed banned writer and government critic Liao Yiwu from a plane and took him into custody, preventing him from travelling to Germany for a literary festival, a friend said. Officers hauled Liao, who had a German visa, from the plane in the south-western city of Chengdu shortly before it was to take off for Beijing, from where he was to catch a flight to Germany, the friend, whose identity is not being released to protect her, said in a telephone interview.
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Liao’s book The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up was published in the West last year after being banned in China. He wrote it from interviews with toilet cleaners, prostitutes, older monks, political prisoners and street artists.
The writer was imprisoned for four years beginning in 1990 after he published the poem Massacre in 1989 about the bloody crackdown that year on pro-democracy demonstrations, which were centred in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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