Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Anastasia Lin, (born January 1, 1990) is a Chinese-Canadian actress, model, beauty pageant titleholder, and human rights advocate. Lin won the Miss World Canada title in 2015 and was to represent Canada at Miss World 2015 pageant to be held in China but was refused a visa by Chinese authorities after being declared \"persona non grata.\" The news of her rejection from the pageant, and her subsequent attempt to enter China through Hong Kong, caused global media attention for several weeks, leading to a front page article in The New York Times and op-eds and editorials in major newspapers. Most of the coverage praised what it said was Lin's bravery for \"resistance to tyranny\" using the novel form of a beauty pageant, and she was hailed as \"an outspoken advocate for freedom of conscience.\"Analysts widely suspected the reason for refusal of entry to be due to her advocacy of human rights in China and choice of film roles, and her rejection from the pageant caused widespread reflection on the ability of authoritarian China to exert its influence far beyond its own borders.Lin is a graduate of University of Toronto (with Bachelor of Arts in theater and minor in history and political science) and has based her career acting in films that deal with human rights issues in her country of birth. In January 2016 was listed as one of the top \"25 under 25\" by MTV Fora."@en }
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- Anastasia_Lin abstract "Anastasia Lin, (born January 1, 1990) is a Chinese-Canadian actress, model, beauty pageant titleholder, and human rights advocate. Lin won the Miss World Canada title in 2015 and was to represent Canada at Miss World 2015 pageant to be held in China but was refused a visa by Chinese authorities after being declared \"persona non grata.\" The news of her rejection from the pageant, and her subsequent attempt to enter China through Hong Kong, caused global media attention for several weeks, leading to a front page article in The New York Times and op-eds and editorials in major newspapers. Most of the coverage praised what it said was Lin's bravery for \"resistance to tyranny\" using the novel form of a beauty pageant, and she was hailed as \"an outspoken advocate for freedom of conscience.\"Analysts widely suspected the reason for refusal of entry to be due to her advocacy of human rights in China and choice of film roles, and her rejection from the pageant caused widespread reflection on the ability of authoritarian China to exert its influence far beyond its own borders.Lin is a graduate of University of Toronto (with Bachelor of Arts in theater and minor in history and political science) and has based her career acting in films that deal with human rights issues in her country of birth. In January 2016 was listed as one of the top \"25 under 25\" by MTV Fora.".