Nobel literature winner says censorship necessary

December 06, 2012 21:59

This year's Nobel literature winner Mo Yan, who has been criticised for his cozy relationship with China's Communist Party, compared censorship to airport security checks, suggesting today that it is sometimes necessary.

Mo said he doesn't feel that censorship should stand in the way of truth but that any defamation, or rumors, "should be censored." "But I also hope that censorship, per se, should have the highest principal," he said in comments translated by an interpreter from Chinese into English.

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