Outspoken writer flees China after threats
He said: "I feel so much more relaxed now that I am in a place where I can speak freely and publish freely. I am in a very good mood now."
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Hide AdThe writer said police in China had often visited him in recent months, with veiled threats that if he published more works abroad he would be jailed.
The Sichuan-based writer was also banned from leaving China to attend a literary festival in Australia in March and removed from a plane in the southwestern city of Chengdu in February while on his way to Germany for a literary festival.
The police intimidation of Mr Liao appeared to be part of one of the Chinese government's broadest campaigns of repression in years.
Mr Liao has been under government scrutiny since he publicly mourned those killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989.