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China cracks whip ahead of Nobel night
AP, Dec 4, 2010, 06.04am
BEIJING: China's crackdown before next week's Nobel peace prize ceremony has widened to block a well-known artist and an economist who's more than 80-years old from traveling overseas.
Artist Ai Weiwei said he was stopped from getting on a flight from Beijing to Seoul on Thursday night, while economist Mao Yushi said he was prevented from flying to Singapore on Wednesday morning.
Both are supporters of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who is now serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion.
"It reminded me of the Cultural Revolution," Mao Yushi posted on his microblog on Thursday. "I'm blocked from going abroad and they say it's for national security. It's the same logic." Ai, an artist said police blocked him at the boarding gate and showed him a handwritten note that said he could cause damage to national security by leaving. AP
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AP, Dec 4, 2010, 06.04am
BEIJING: China's crackdown before next week's Nobel peace prize ceremony has widened to block a well-known artist and an economist who's more than 80-years old from traveling overseas.
Artist Ai Weiwei said he was stopped from getting on a flight from Beijing to Seoul on Thursday night, while economist Mao Yushi said he was prevented from flying to Singapore on Wednesday morning.
Both are supporters of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who is now serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion.
"It reminded me of the Cultural Revolution," Mao Yushi posted on his microblog on Thursday. "I'm blocked from going abroad and they say it's for national security. It's the same logic." Ai, an artist said police blocked him at the boarding gate and showed him a handwritten note that said he could cause damage to national security by leaving. AP
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