Tuesday, July 19, 2011

News at Eleven: "The authorities told me if this book

is coming out then they will put me into jail," he [Liao Yiwu] said.

"I tried to negotiate but it was like a bottleneck and we couldn't get any further--no solution."

After being denied permission to leave China, he quietly crossed the border and came to Germany via a circuitous route.

from BBC News: Poet Liao Yiwu fled to Germany 'to tell China's story'

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