Category Archives: Support Liu Xiaobo

The English PEN Modern Literature Festival

Saturday 2 April, 2:00 pm9:30 pm |Free

As part of the Enemies Project, over 30 contemporary English writers will present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world. 

On 2 April 2016, over 30 writers, poets, novelists, playwrights and artists will come together to celebrate English PEN’s Writers at Risk programme and the incredible individuals we support. Continue reading

China: Seven years after his arrest PEN writers urge China to release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia

lxb‘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

2010 PEACE LAUREATE LANGUISHES IN CHINESE JAIL IN FACE OF INTERNATIONAL INDIFFERENCE

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

Five Years On, Liu Xiaobo’s Wife Stays Silent, Under House Arrest

2015-10-08
8b30938e-3adb-4318-98d6-1d2c10166680Liu Xia (r) and rights lawyer Mo Shaoping (l) arrive at her brother Liu Hui’s trial in Beijing on April 23, 2013.
AFP
Five years after being awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, activists are calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to release his wife Liu Xia, Continue reading

Letter to President Obama From 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

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

PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese

By EDWARD WONG SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 5:04 AM September 18, 2015 5:04 am

18sino-pen01-tmagArticleA photograph of Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. In 2009, he was charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to 11 years in prison.Credit Espen Rasmussen for The New York Times

For them, pens and laptops are the tools of their trade and their megaphones to the world. Among their ranks are some of the best-known chroniclers of American society and Continue reading

Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize

 

17 September 2015
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.

Geir Lundestad told the AP news agency that the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr Obama.

Instead, the decision was met with criticism in the US. Continue reading

Samantha Power: Remarks at the FreeThe20 Campaign Launch

CN2HdjPUkAA6FKhSamantha Power

U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Washington, DC
September 1, 2015
AS DELIVERED

AMBASSADOR POWER: Thank you. Good afternoon. Twenty years ago, 189 governments and approximately 30,000 nongovernmental organizations – activists from around the globe convened in Beijing for a world conference to advance gender equality and women’s rights. Continue reading