Canada's China-born Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin will not attend the U.S. premiere of an indie movie she stars in, apparently because she has protested Chinese human rights abuses, say organizers of the Washington, D.C. event.
Lin, the reigning Miss World Canada and a Vancouver-based actress, has had to back out of appearing at a Wednesday night screening of The Bleeding Edge, a thriller about forced human organ harvesting in China by award-winning director Leon Lee.
Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which is organizing the film screening, claims the London-based Miss World Organization imposed...
Lin, the reigning Miss World Canada and a Vancouver-based actress, has had to back out of appearing at a Wednesday night screening of The Bleeding Edge, a thriller about forced human organ harvesting in China by award-winning director Leon Lee.
Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which is organizing the film screening, claims the London-based Miss World Organization imposed...
- 12/14/2016
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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