Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Frank Moorhouse Boycotts China Tour with PEN’s Support
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'Award winning writer Frank Moorhouse made a tough decision earlier this year when he was scheduled to visit China with a group of fellow Australian writers. Moorhouse, a member of Sydney PEN's eminent Writers Advisory Panel, withdrew from the tour arranged by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a protest against the 11-year sentence handed down to Chinese writerand Honorary Member of Sydney PEN, Liu Xiaobo, on Christmas Day 2009.'(3)

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