{"id":26621,"date":"2012-04-07T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=26621 "},"modified":"2012-04-07T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:56:00","slug":"26621-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=26621","title":{"rendered":"Author of Book Critical of Chinese Premier Flees to US"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hong Kong—Chinese dissident who wrote a book critical of the country’s leadership has said he fled into exile after being warned against publishing a biography of a jailed Nobel laureate.<\/span><\/div>
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Yu Jie, a writer who in 2010 published “Wen Jiabao: China’s Best Actor” despite threats of jail time, fled to Washington with his family in January after he was “subjected to torture” and faced restrictions on publishing.<\/span><\/div>
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In an interview aired Friday on Hong Kong broadcaster RTHK, Yu said that his decision to flee Beijing was also prompted by his urge to pursue a book project on fellow dissident Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.<\/span><\/div>
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“The secret police told me I will be jailed if the book is published,” he said.<\/span><\/div>
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“(I fled)… to make sure the biography can be published overseas,” the 38-year-old told RTHK without saying when the book will be released.<\/span><\/div>
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He described the decision to flee as “painful” and said he believed he would not be able to return to Beijing within the next five years.<\/span><\/div>
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The writer said he had been warned against criticizing the Communist Party or speaking out against China abroad.<\/span><\/div>
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Yu has previously said he came under tighter surveillance after Liu won the Nobel Prize.<\/span><\/div>
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He has also complained that he was forbidden from publishing or practicing his religion. He is a member of a Protestant church which is not authorized by the Chinese government.<\/span><\/div>
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Liu, 56, is the only Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison. He wrote a bold manifesto for democracy called Charter 08 and was jailed for 11 years for subversion on Christmas Day 2009.<\/span><\/div>
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Human rights groups frequently voice concern about Chinese dissidents who remain in the country including prominent rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.<\/span><\/div>
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<div>Yu Jie, who in 2010 wrote a book denouncing Wen Jiabao, escaped to the US after being tortured for his work. &nbsp;Yu also was under pressure to not publish a biography on fellow dissident and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, and has not been permitted to publish on or to practice his Christian faith.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}