Miss World Contestant, Anastasia Lin: Banned in China For Her Human Rights Advocacy

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Anastasia Lin is now a popular name not only as a Miss World contestant but also for raising her voice in favor of humanity in China. Anastasia Lin is a Chinese-born Canadian beauty who became the center of attraction after the Chinese government blocked her from participating the Miss World Pageant last year.

In 2015, the Chinese governmen. blocked Ms. Lin from participating the Miss World finals, which was performed in Sanya. Sanya has mainly captured the headline after it started to host this beauty contest from 2003.

Last year it was '65 th Annual Miss World Pageant contest'. According to The New York Times, the event's British organizers only offered her a consolation prize, of sorts. This year the organizers of this event have arranged a way so that she can participate in the contest.

But the true fact is she was not allowed to say a single word publicly during the proceeding of the contest. The true fact behind this incident is, this event is mainly sponsored by the Chinese companies.

Ms. Lin is a trained pianist and a critic of the human rights abuse in China, and for this, she is mainly barred from attending any press conference, even her friends, and relatives. 

On Wednesday after a standoff for three weeks, the organizers, at last, allowed Ms. Lin to attend news media. The most surprising fact was this year Washington is the center of this beauty contest, but the organizers did not permit her to say a single word to the media as the event is hugely dependent on the "Chinese corporate sponsors".

Sources of The New York Times also added that a close friend of this Canadian beauty said that the organizing members of this event warned her "that she would be ejected from the competition if she spoke publicly about murky, government-sanctioned transplant programs that human rights advocates say rely heavily on the organs of murdered prisoners of conscience."

Though China has rejected the allegations and replied that organ donation in China are voluntary.

Even last week it was revealed that an official of the State Department wanted to have an interaction regarding the ongoing "harassment of her father in China". But the event organizers did not allow the official. Though later Ms. Lin was allowed only after she was ready to be accompanied by an employee of the event.

One serious example of how the Miss World Organization actually reacted is discovered from the desk of a columnist for the Boston Globe. The columnist, Jeff Jacoby, said while taking an interview of Lin, two pageant officials angrily reacted and stopped the interview, even accused her of "breaching the rules."

Even the columnist was not allowed to have a fresh interview.

In another recent interview, Ms. Lin did not answer any question related to her silence in the beauty contest. She mainly focused on a spiritual movement, named Falun Gong, which is strictly banned by the Chinese Govt.

She uttered some honest words regarding this spiritual movement. She said,"  China does not have a viable voluntary transplant system, so someone has to die." She even added, "It's not like the organs grow on plants."

It is truly a great matter of concern that an outspoken critic like Anastasia Lin is debarred from participating in a beauty contest when the whole world is cherishing the true freedom of humanity.