exile

www.newyorker.com — "Liao Yiwu, the writer, has left China, his homeland. He arrived this morning in Berlin, via Warsaw and Hanoi. This is good news and bad news at once. It is good, because Liao is now safe and feels liberated: “My goal was personal freedom and freedom to write,”... And it is bad news that he felt pushed by the constant threat of prison at home to choose between silence and exile."

worldblog.msnbc.msn.com — Shanghai citizen Feng Zhenghu never thought he’d find himself in a plight similar to Viktor Navorski, an East European stranded in an airport in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 movie "The Terminal." He also never expected to become a Twitter star followed by 7,000 people in just one month since he started to tweet about his exiled life at Tokyo’s Narita Airport.