Chinese poet shows flight to Germany

A Chinese dissident poet told the BBC that he fled to Germany to be able to publish material about life in China.

He says Liao Yi Wu that he wants to present a picture of the reality of life in China through his memoirs, said a dissident Chinese poet told the BBC that he fled to Germany to be able to publish material about life in China. According to Liao Yiwu that the Chinese authorities refused to grant him an exit visa to seventeen times. The Wu Yi was imprisoned for his writings on the protests in Tiananmen Square in the Eighties of the last century. Wu Yi was able to leave the country to infiltrate Vietnam to end up in Germany after traveling through several countries. The Chinese government has this year launched a crackdown on dissent, arrested by the artists, lawyers and activists. And broke out the differences between the Liao Wu Yi and the Chinese authorities since the publication of a poem about the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. He was arrested and then subsequently sent to prison. Wu Yi and A book about his experiences in prison address the nadir of the community. Chinese poet and ended exhibitions is now writing his memoirs, which describes the treatment of the authorities. Wu Yi said that the authorities threatened that he would be in jail if the publication of this book. "We have tried to negotiate with them but it seemed to be stuck in the neck of the bottle did not make any progress, and there was no solution." After the Chinese authorities refused to allow him to leave the country, the infiltration of Liao Yiwu quietly across the border and arrived in Germany indirectly. In Berlin, where he lives now, Wu Yi said that he had left behind his family and his friends, but they do not feel sad about his departure as long as the situation safer for him in the West than it is in China, where he was exposed to another detention.