FILE PHOTO - Chinese dissident Hu Jia uses his mobile phone at Beijing airport November 6, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Jia, a well-known Chinese dissident who lives in Beijing, says he had hoped to go to the southeastern city of Xiamen for his government-sponsored holiday, but state security officials said no.
"They told me I had to go to a more isolated place this time," he told Reuters by phone from Yunnan province in far southwestern China, a popular destination renowned for its scenery and the culture of its ethnic minority groups.
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