While the pen might be mightier than the sword, it would appear that International PEN is not mightier than the visa that most Mainlanders require to travel to Hong Kong. Beijing keeps 20 writers and 1 doctor bottled up in order to silence them. ...full story at angrychineseblogger
from angrychineseblogger on Tue, Feb 06 2007
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