To Chair Woman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Mrs. Kaci Kullmann
Former Chairman
Mr. Thorbjorn Jagland
Dear Mrs. Kullmann,
Dear Mr. Jagland,
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mr. Liu Xiaobo is still kept in prison in China, he is serving his 11 years imprisonment and will not be released till 2020. Continue reading
Tienchi Liao: An empty chair for Liu xiaobo on the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony已关闭评论
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‘Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.’ – Liu Xiaobo Continue reading
China: Seven years after his arrest PEN writers urge China to release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia已关闭评论
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PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015.
As the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, Reporters Without Borders notes that the 2010 recipient, the cyber-dissident Liu Xiaobo, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for nearly seven years. The organization urges the international community to put pressure on Beijing to release the citizen journalist.
The Chinese government has been arbitrarily holding Liu Xiaobo, Continue reading
2010 PEACE LAUREATE LANGUISHES IN CHINESE JAIL IN FACE OF INTERNATIONAL INDIFFERENCE已关闭评论
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September 2, 2015
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama,
We are writing as your fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to ask that you call publicly on the Government of China to release from house arrest Liu Xia, the wife our imprisoned fellow Laureate Dr. Liu Xiaobo, and to allow her to travel abroad for medical treatment as she has requested. Continue reading
Letter to President Obama From 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates已关闭评论
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FILE – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is seen in a Nov. 13, 2014, image in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.
June 09, 2015 8:24 AM
BEIJING—Chinese leaders will woo Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on her first visit to the country, a snub for the quasi-military Continue reading
China to Push ‘Special Bond’ With Myanmar During Suu Kyi Visit已关闭评论
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Tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize
By: Sarah Hoffman
PUBLISHED ON JUNE 25, 2014
Five years ago this past Monday, PEN received word from our sources inside China that Liu Xiaobo, who had been held under “residential surveillance” at an undisclosed location in Continue reading
China: What’s in a Law?已关闭评论
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BY ADAM TAYLOR June 25
China’s Washington Embassy (Google Maps)
China’s Washington embassy is getting a new address, according to The Washington Post’s Dr. Gridlock blog: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza. Continue reading
The not-so-subtle diplomatic tactic of renaming streets to troll other countries已关闭评论
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BEIJING Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:32am EDT
Workers prepare the Nobel Peace Prize laureate exhibition ”I Have No Enemies” for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo December 9, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville
(Reuters) – China on Wednesday dismissed as a “farce” Continue reading
China calls U.S. bid to name street for Nobel peace laureate a ‘farce’已关闭评论
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