Beijing Adult Entertainment: Chinese author taken from plane, put under house arrest
BEIJING: Banned writer and government critic Liao Yiwu said Chinese police removed him from a plane Monday and placed him under house arrest, preventing him from traveling to Germany for a literary festival.
As the plane was readying for takeoff in the southwestern city of Chengdu, a flight attendant told Liao to go to the entrance of the jet, where a police officer was waiting for him, the novelist and poet 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 centered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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