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Miss World Canada prevented from reaching China pageant
Reuters ^ | Tyrone Siu

Posted on 11/26/2015 10:37:14 AM PST by BenLurkin

Canada's China-born Miss World contestant was stopped in Hong Kong on Thursday and denied permission to board a flight to the beauty pageant finals in China, a move she said was punishment for speaking out against human rights abuses in the country.

Anastasia Lin, a 25-year-old Toronto actress who was crowned Miss World Canada in May, was unable to obtain a visa in advance of her arrival for the contest finals this week in Sanya, on the southern Chinese resort island of Hainan.

But she said she attempted to enter the country anyway based on a rule that allows Canadian citizens to obtain a landing visa upon arrival in Sanya.

Lin, who is a practitioner of Falun Gong, a religious group that says it is repressed in China, told reporters at Hong Kong's international airport that she was prevented from boarding a Dragonair flight to Sanya. She said there has been no response from the Chinese authorities so far.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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1 posted on 11/26/2015 10:37:14 AM PST by BenLurkin
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This is the best Canada can do?

Looks a nice day (if she was in Cleveland)

2 posted on 11/26/2015 10:41:17 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin


How you Chinese?  You no chin!

3 posted on 11/26/2015 10:50:30 AM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: BenLurkin

She wuz railroaded!!


4 posted on 11/26/2015 11:17:16 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firep Myower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: BenLurkin

Um ,Cleveland is not located in Canada. Reach over and give that Google Maps a good whack on your monitor. Good, that should clear things up.


5 posted on 11/26/2015 11:34:50 AM PST by Cyman
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To: BenLurkin

Liberals are small,mean thugs.


6 posted on 11/26/2015 11:46:14 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: sparklite2

Clearly not guilty!


7 posted on 11/26/2015 12:15:48 PM PST by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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To: Cyman; BenLurkin
There actually is a Cleveland, Canada. It's in Quebec province. Don't know anything about any rail lines going through it.

Just sayin’.
:)

8 posted on 11/26/2015 12:28:06 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: BenLurkin

The hottest Canadians are in Los Angeles, but yeah, they can do way better than this.


9 posted on 11/26/2015 3:02:16 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond
I think she is absolutely lovely and far more beautiful than the average Caucasoid contestants who look a little hard around the edges to me. Chacun à son goût.
10 posted on 11/26/2015 4:08:15 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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Not sure this is her, don't care. ;')
CAPTION

11 posted on 11/26/2015 10:45:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: sparklite2

Not Guilty!


12 posted on 11/26/2015 10:53:36 PM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: BenLurkin

No, but this is...

13 posted on 11/27/2015 3:40:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: sparklite2
You no chin.

That's because she's a Lin.

Anastasia Lin, a 25-year-old Toronto actress who was crowned Miss World Canada in May...

Miss Lin is a very attractive woman, and shares enough of our views to take China to task on it's civil rights abuses. She okay by me.


14 posted on 11/27/2015 3:44:43 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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