News at Eleven: The unstated reason, she [Cui Weiping] said:

last year's commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement and her recent outraged Twitter posts at the jailing of a peaceful political activist. "Really, they want to punish me," Cui said Thursday sitting in an artsy coffee shop in the university district.

"They're afraid, one, of what I might say abroad," she said, "and two, they want to pressure me."

In the uproar over Google's tussle with Chinese Internet censorship, Cui's case is a reminder that the authoritarian government often resorts to more blunt ways to restrict the flow of ideas.

from The Associated Press: China bans poet from traveling to US conference

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