Chinese censors block news on blind activist’s escape
Beijing (CNN) — A Chinese musician famous for playing a two-stringed fiddle, a 1994 Hollywood drama about two prison inmates, a United Airlines flight bound for Washington and CNN — what do they have in common?
If you try to search “Abing,” “the Shawshank Redemption,” “UA898″ and “CNN” on Sina Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, you receive this terse message: “According to relevant laws and policies, results are not displayed.”
These terms have joined a fast-growing list of keywords blocked by Chinese censors as they try to prevent the public from obtaining news on a prominent human rights activist who recently escaped his more than 18 months of house arrest in eastern China.
