Outspoken Miss World Canada denied entry to China

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Outspoken Miss World Canada denied entry to China
KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press

HONG KONG (AP) — Canada's outspoken Miss World contestant said she was barred Thursday from entering China to take part in this year's pageant and accused Beijing of overreach in extending its campaign of censorship even to beauty contests.

Chinese-born Anastasia Lin said she was unable to board her connecting flight from Hong Kong to the southern island province of Hainan after a Chinese official told her by telephone that she would not be granted a visa on arrival.

Lin is an outspoken critic of Chinese religious policy and a follower of the Falun Gong meditation practice, which was outlawed by China's ruling Communist Party in 1999.

"If they start to censor beauty pageants — how pathetic is that?" Lin said in Hong Kong.

Dressed in black leggings and a belted tan trench coat, Lin was approached by several fellow travelers in the Hong Kong airport arrival hall who wanted to take her photo.

Lin, who moved to Canada from China when she was 13, told a U.S. congressional hearing in July that tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been killed so their organs could be harvested and sold for transplants. The 25-year-old actress also plays an imprisoned Falun Gong practitioner in an upcoming Canadian movie, "The Bleeding Edge."

Lin said that after she won the Canadian title, Chinese security agents visited her father who still lives in China in an apparent attempt to intimidate her into silence. Although she hadn't received an invitation letter from organizers, and therefore was unable to obtain a Chinese visa, she said she decided to travel to China anyway in hopes of obtaining a visa on arrival.

After landing in Hong Kong early Thursday on a flight from Toronto, Lin was told by airline staff at check-in that she needed to speak to an official in Hainan's provincial capital of Sanya. She said the official, who identified himself only by his surname, Chen, seemed to be attempting to verify her identify. After telling her she wasn't eligible for a visa, the man refused to give a reason then abruptly hung up the phone, she said.

"To prevent me from even stepping into Chinese territory, I think this is what they're trying to do. I really don't see where this insecurity comes from," Lin told The Associated Press. "I think that's the real harm when people watch this and learn a negative lesson. I hope people see courage and hope in the story, not simply just being denied."


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-11-27

[Kasset Tak]

Well, that she is criticizing China and is a member of an organization that is illegal in China is her own fault and I would compare that to Chris Brown being denied visas for concerts in UK, Canada and Australia because he's convicted of assault.

[Honkie]

you insulted me and want me to invite you to my house as a guest ?

[trogers]

Well, that she is criticizing China and is a member of an organization that is illegal in China is her own fault and I would compare that to Chris Brown being denied visas for concerts in UK, Canada and Australia because he's convicted of assault.

Verbal assault and mental conviction = physical assault?

[trogers]

The pageant should be renamed - Miss World (of only countries agreeable to China).

[daoyai]

Well, that she is criticizing China and is a member of an organization that is illegal in China is her own fault and I would compare that to Chris Brown being denied visas for concerts in UK, Canada and Australia because he's convicted of assault.

How is it her "fault"? To be a member of F.G. and a critic is not a fault, it is a human right. Assault? being a violent criminal is a fault yes. The CCP is at fault as well as being violent criminals.

[Usernames]

This is why major international events should never be held in China. The Chinese government should not hold a veto right over participants of events in which it sought to obtain. Time to move the 2022 Winter Olympics, Formula 1, and anything else in which the Chinese can alter the playing field to their advantage by denying visas.

[Usernames]

Oh, and btw China, you just took something that NOBODY would have noticed and exploded it into a major scandal. Good work, if you're a dumbass.

[Berkshire]

I wonder if she would have been denied entry if she wasn't Chinese....? It seems the Chinese especially hate being criticized by one of their own.

[craigt3365]

She's a member of Falun Gong, a highly persecuted group in China. Along with any others who are critical of the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong

The persecution of Falun Gong refers to the campaign initiated in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party to eliminate the spiritual practice of Falun Gong in China. It is characterised by multifaceted propaganda campaign, a program of enforced ideological conversion and re-education, and a variety of extralegal coercive measures such as arbitrary arrests, forced labor, and physical torture, sometimes resulting in death.^[1]

Falun Gong is a qigong discipline combining slow-moving exercises and meditation with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. It was founded by Li Hongzhi, who introduced it to the public in May 1992 in Changchun, Jilin. Following a period of meteoric growth in the 1990s, the Communist Party launched a campaign to "eradicate" Falun Gong on 20 July 1999.^[2]

An extra-constitutional body called the 6-10 Office was created to lead the persecution of Falun Gong.^[3] The authorities mobilized the state media apparatus, judiciary, police, army, the education system, families and workplaces against the group.^[4] The campaign was driven by large-scale propaganda through television, newspaper, radio and internet.^[5] There are reports of systematic torture,^[6][7] illegal imprisonment, forced labor, organ harvesting^[8] and abusive psychiatric measures, with the apparent aim of forcing practitioners to recant their belief in Falun Gong.^[2]

[Linky]

This is why major international events should never be held in China. The Chinese government should not hold a veto right over participants of events in which it sought to obtain. Time to move the 2022 Winter Olympics, Formula 1, and anything else in which the Chinese can alter the playing field to their advantage by denying visas.

It can work the other way if contestants have some balls, so to speak.

Any sign of someone not getting visa and all contestants withdraw at the last minute.

Give olympics and world cup to them, then all withdraw. Next olympics deny visas for all chinese athletes.

She can get into china another way. Fly into thailand on her chinese passport and claim asylum. Shed be back in china within 24 hours

[facthailand]

Every human has the right to criticise, even beauty queens. That's called freedom of expression.

It was her fault, however, not to have an invitation letter from the pageant sponsors. Such letters are always required for those traveling to China on business.

And why didn't they invite her, anyway? There's far more to this than on the surface.

[MobileContent]

FG is banned in China, so no big deal just keep her out.

[khunken]

No problem with her criticising China for it's attitude to the Falun Gong.

But when she repeats the organ harvesting conspiracy theory, I don't blame China for telling her to FG off.

[Scott]

A sexist slur has been removed.

[jacky54]

Bit naive of her even to think they would let her in

[tigermonkey]

Bit naive of her even to think they would let her in

I very much doubt that she believed she would be let in. She was there to make a very public show of being refused a visa to participate in the pageant.

[Publicus]

The Party is Number One.

Adhere to the dictates of the CCP or suffer the consequences.

The CCP Dictators in Beijing are speaking to you, I, everyone in the world. Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan already know from harsh experience.

This is how the New World Order of the CCP and Putin works. (Once the ayatollahs have served their usefulness, they too will go the way of Falun Gong.)

Global events and global citizens will conform to the Party or else. The corporate sponsors are CCP whores too.

[Publicus]

Bit naive of her even to think they would let her in

CCP immi rules and regs allow a Canadian citizen a l5-day Landing Visa in certain cities. Sanya on the resort island of Hainan Island in the SCS is one such place and it's where the Miss World competition is about to begin.

Miss Canada Anastasia Lin had hoped to obtain this visa. An extension is possible. An extension would have been necessary because the 15 day authorisation would not be enough for the entire tournament.

Miss Canada Anastasia Lin stranded at the Arrival Terminal building of the Hong Kong airport.

Hong Kong immi admitted her into HKG. Ms Lin was however directed to a phone at the HKG airport to take the call from this guy Chen in Hainan who told her she was "persona non grata" in the CCP China. CCP immi rules in such instances, i.e.,delivering an unwanted person to the CCP require the airline to pay the return trip.

(None of this applied to Edward Snowden btw when he arrived in HKG after fleeing Hawaii where he did his treasonous espionage against the United States. While the typical HKG visa on arrival is 7 days, Snowden got the standard 90-day visa US citizens get on arrival in HKG. Also applies to Canada, UK, Australia.)

Ms Lin's statement in winning the Miss Canada contest consisted of a general non-specific statement advocating religious freedom and human rights. That killed her then and there with the CCP Dictators in Beijing.

Ms Lin remains a qualified contestant by the Miss World governing committee body, meaning she remains eligible to compete. So let's see if anything comes of her being eligible to compete but being prohibited competing by a 21st century fascist host government of the event.

[Scott]

Off-topic post and reply removed.

[Publicus]

Fact.

She is considered an 'undesirable' in China. Therefore, she is denied entry.

I defy any critic of this to name just one country in the world where this is not the case. Why single out the Chinese?

Freedom of religion and human rights.

That is at the nub of the CCP dictatorship. CCP dictators singled out one contestant. A Chinese who believes in freedom of religion and in human rights.

CCP dictators have already demonstrated they have no regard or respect of national sovereignty. Or of international law and order. CCP Dictators. Love 'em or leave 'em. Irredentist, same as Putin and also Milosevic.

Her father in Hunan province lost business deals because the CCP gestapo harassed him. To CCP, Ms Lin is undesirable because CCP is against freedom of speech, freedom of religion, promoting human rights. That is who is wrong. That is why the Chinese Communist Party draws deserved attention to itself on all fronts against human progress.

[Tywais]

Appears the government's reason is she had no letter of invitation. Possibly more of an excuse rather than a valid reason?

[Tywais]

A history of being scrutinized by China. An article from May.

Newly Crowned Miss World Canada Says Father Threatened in China

Anastasia Lin campaigned for title on human rights platform, now faces direct threat against her family

Chinese security forces have moved quickly to silence newly crowned Miss World Canada Anastasia Lin, threatening her father who lives in China that if she keeps up her human rights advocacy he and the rest of her family in China will pay for it.

More here - theepochtimes

[Rancid]

Perhaps like most beauty queens she should have just said she was in favour of world peace...

[Publicus]

Fact.

She is considered an 'undesirable' in China. Therefore, she is denied entry.

I defy any critic of this to name just one country in the world where this is not the case. Why single out the Chinese?

Ms Lin is a Falun Gong practitioner in Canada. FG is outlawed in the CCP China yet even though her family in Hunan province are not FG, they are subject to the CCP doing to the Lin family anything they decide they want to do.

That Anastasia Lin is a qualified contestant in the Miss World contest being held in the PRC makes this a global issue. Ms. Lin spoke of religious freedom and human rights in winning the Miss Canada competition. She remains an eligible contestant by the Miss World governing body which submitted her name to the Chinese Communist Party to be admitted into the CCP China.

CCP makes Darth Cheney look like a wimp.

China still uses medieval torture methods against opponents – Amnesty

Report details alleged beatings and torture endured by those taken into police custody despite government pledges to reform

A composite showing illustrations of weapons allegedly used in China for torture and forced confessions. Photograph: Amnesty International

Chinese security agents continue to employ a medieval array of torture methods against government opponents, activists, lawyers and petitioners, including spiked rods, iron torture chairs and electric batons, a report claims.

The Amnesty International report, called No End in Sight: Torture and Forced Confessions in China, is based on interviews with nearly 40 Chinese human rights lawyers and contains chilling details of alleged beatings and torture sessions endured by those taken into police custody.

Poon said most of those targeted were human rights lawyers, Communist party officials taken into custody by anti-corruption investigators, and practitioners of the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/china-still-uses-medieval-torture-methods-against-opponents-amnesty

Edited November 28, 2015 by Publicus

[Scott]

An off-topic response to another poster has been removed. The thread is about Miss Canada and China.

[Tywais]

She is also going to be in a movie in 2016, The Bleeding Edge. Brave girl.

[Publicus]

CNN interviewed Ms Lin after she'd been denied transit to Hainan from Hong Kong. Ms Canada raises excellent questions about CCP arbitrary political demands on visiting competitors in international events, such as the Olympics, badly hosted by the CCP.

Unacceptably "hosted" by the censoring and punishing CCP.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/26/asia/china-canada-miss-world-anastasia-lin/index.html

[GOLDBUGGY]

Loose Lips....Sink Ships!

[Publicus]

Some lips go right onto both cheeks.

Smoooooch !