Chinese lawyer prevented from receiving US award
China prevented human rights lawyer Ni Yulan from traveling to the US to receive an award for her work, Ni said yesterday as she condemned the restriction on her freedom.
Authorities refused to provide Ni with a passport to attend a ceremony on Tuesday in Washington honoring “International Women of Courage,” a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the city for a nuclear summit.
The Chinese Public Security Bureau “would not let me leave,” Ni said, adding that authorities informed her she was being stopped due to her involvement with more than 200 rights lawyers and activists who were detained by the government last summer.
“It is purely to limit my personal freedom,” she said.
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