BEIJING (AP) — Activists have criticized a Hollywood studio for filming a comedy in an eastern Chinese city where a blind, self-taught activist lawyer is being held under house arrest and reportedly beaten.
Relativity Media is shooting part of the comedy “21 and Over” in Linyi, a city in Shandong province, where the activist Chen Guangcheng’s village is located. Authorities have turned Chen’s village of Dongshigu into a hostile, no-go zone, and activists and reporters have been turned away, threatened and had stones thrown at them by men patrolling the village.
 
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