Canada's Miss World contestant, Anastasia Lin, was refused entry to China for this year's pageant. Lin is a follower of Falun G...
Canada's Miss World contestant, Anastasia Lin,
was refused entry to China for this year's pageant. Lin is a follower
of Falun Gong, which was outlawed in China in 1999, she was barred Thursday from entering China to take part in this year's pageant in the southern island province of Hainan.
Chinese-born Anastasia Lin said she was unable to board her
connecting flight from Hong Kong when a Chinese official told her by
telephone that she would not be granted a visa on arrival. Lin, who is an actress and resident of Toronto, 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.
She tweeted this on Thursday: I'm in Hong Kong, but the Chinese government has barred me from getting the next flight to Sanya for Miss World.
