Miss World Canada denied China entry at Hong Kong airport after human rights advocacy

Chinese-Canadian beauty queen and actress Anastasia Lin was blocked from entering mainland China on Thursday to compete in the Miss World pageant after she criticised the country's sense of security.

Lin, who arrived in Hong Kong from Toronto without a visa, talked to the local media after she was not allowed to board a plane to Sanya in Hainan Province, where the Miss World beauty contest is being held.

“What I feel particularly upset about is this big country can’t even take in a 25-year-old girl. This shows that the country does not have a sense of security. Don’t they have any confidence in their authority?” Lin said from Chek Lap Kok Airport on Thursday night.

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Lin, a self-styled activist and Falun Gong practicioner, arrived in Hong Kong from Toronto at 6am on Thursday on a Cathay Pacific flight, as she planned to take another connecting flight with Dragonair to Sanya. She said that she continued the journey to Sanya without a Chinese visa because of Hainan province's special visa policy.