Story highlights Beauty queen Anastasia Lin says she has been barred from entering China

Lin was due in the resort island of Hainan to compete in the Miss World pageant

Hong Kong (CNN) Is China afraid of a beauty queen?

That's what Canada's Miss World contestant is asking after she said she'd been barred from entering the country to take part in the beauty pageant because of her outspoken views on human rights in China.

Anastasia Lin, who was born in China and moved to Canada as a teen, told CNN that she had been unable to board her Thursday connecting flight in Hong Kong to the city of Sanya, Hainan, where the Miss World contest is already underway.

A Chinese official named Chen told her by telephone that she would not be granted a landing visa on arrival, she said.

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