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By Peter Foster in Beijing and Bonnie Malkin in Sydney 7:30AM BST 09 May 2011
Liao Yiwu, the outspoken author of The Corpse Walker was told he could not travel to the Sydney Writers' Festival for "security reasons", the festival's organisers said, adding their "deep disappointment" at the decision.
The case of Mr Liao, who was also prevented from attending the PEN World Voices festival in New York last month, was taken up by fellow writer Salman Rushdie in an excoriating article attacking the Chinese government last month.
Mr Rushdie, who reported that Mr Liao had now even been ordered to stop publishing his works abroad, numbered him as one of a brave band of Chinese dissidents who had the courage to "speak the truth against the lies of tyrants".
The Chinese government has reacted furiously to Mr Rushdie's insults, accusing him of interfering in China's sovereign and judicial affairs and angrily rejected any need for "lectures" about human rights.
The news of Mr Liao's apparent travel ban came as the art world anxiously awaited news of Ai Weiwei - the acclaimed artist whose Sunflower Seeds has been exhibiting at Tate Modern this year – who has now been detained for 37 days with contact with family, colleagues or lawyers.
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