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Harvard’s chapter of Scholars at Risk is investigating the travel restrictions placed on Beijing Film Academy professor Cui Weiping, who was denied permission to visit the United States last week by the Academy...
...Cui was scheduled to give a lecture at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies today, following a conference in Philadelphia. But last Wednesday, the director of the Beijing Film Academy informed her that she was forbidden to travel, which Cui attributed to her advocacy of human rights and free speech...
...Cui had been warned repeatedly for “transgressions” including posting social criticism pieces on her blog, conducting seminars on the Tiananmen Square Protests, and sending Twitter messages about other scholars who have been persecuted for supporting human rights, according to a New York Times article...
Cui’s Harvard lecture was to discuss trials of Chinese intellectuals including Liu Xiaobo, who was sentenced in December to eleven years in prison for acts of “subversion” such as petitioning for constitutional reform and free elections. Cui surveyed over 100 intellectuals regarding the sentence and then published her findings on Twitter...