Beijing, July 9 (ANI): Chinese writer and government critic Liao Yiwu, has left his country and gone into exile in Germany after police threatened him to stop publishing his controversial works overseas.
Liao Yiwu arrived in Berlin two days ago at the end of a secret journey via Vietnam and Poland, The Scotsman reports.
Yiwu is known for writing 'The Corpse Walker,' a series of interviews with people living in the margins of Chinese society, including a professional mourner, a political prisoner and a public-toilet manager
"I feel so much more relaxed now that I am in a place where I can speak freely and publish freely. I am in a very good mood now," Yiwu was quoted as saying.
Yiwu said police Chinese police often visited him in recent months, threatening him that he would be jailed if he published more works abroad.
The Sichuan-based writer was also banned from leaving China to attend a literary festival in Australia in March and removed from a plane in the southwestern city of Chengdu in February while on his way to Germany for a literary festival.
Yiwu has been under government scrutiny since he publicly mourned those killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Recordings he made of himself wailing and reading his poem about the deaths, "Massacre," became popular and he was sent to prison for four years.(ANI)
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