Tuesday, September 20, 2011

News at Eleven: Liao [Yiwu (a.k.a. Lao Wei)], who spent four years

behind bars for writing the poem "Massacre" about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, said personal freedom in China is only granted to those who surrender their spiritual freedom.

"In China, the biggest problem is brainwashing. If you don't have your memory, or your conscience, everything is possible--but you have to forget about your personal stories," Liao told an event of PEN, a group of authors active on human rights, at New York's New School.

from Bangkok Post: Banned Chinese writer fights 'brainwashing'

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