WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA
China: 2 Intellectuals Barred From Leaving the Country
By EDWARD WONG
Published: December 3, 2010
RECOMMEND
TWITTER
SIGN IN TO E-MAIL
PRINT
REPRINTS
SHARE
In two separate incidents on Thursday, Ai Weiwei, a prominent Chinese artist and frequent critic of the Chinese Communist Party, and Mao Yushi, an 80-year-old economist, were prevented from flying out of Beijing to cities in Asia, presumably because Chinese authorities are trying to keep Chinese intellectuals from attending the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway next Friday. The prize was awarded to a Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, in early October. China is also preventing Mr. Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, from leaving the country to collect the prize. On Thursday, Mr. Ai was catching a flight to Seoul, South Korea, and Mr. Mao was going to Singapore. Both were stopped in the Beijing airport and told by the authorities that they could not travel because they might “endanger state security.” Mr. Ai said in a Twitter message that he had not intended to go to the Nobel ceremony but that he was instead traveling on a matter related to his art.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/world/asia/04briefs-Nobel.html?_r=1
@aiww 还真是的RT @5i55: 艾影帝又获得一个做秀机会rt @aiww 中国警方又给反华势力递了一个好球。RT @xxxfly: @aiww 被边控之后,那大头真是传遍了整个世界媒体,美国之音,德国之声,cnn,bbc,卫报,英国每日电讯。。。简直令人发指的红