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The Audio Long Read

Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words. By Liao Yiwu. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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