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US push to rename Chinese embassy street after dissident

25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:02 ET Share this pagePrint


A picture of Liu Xiaobo seen inside the Nobel Peace Center on the day of The Nobel Peace Prize Continue reading

House committee votes to give Chinese Embassy new address: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza

BY MICHAEL LARIS June 24 at 12:54 PM

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to rename the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and a slap at the human rights record of officials in Beijing. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“In the beginning was the Word”

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / December 18, 2013
On the fifth year of Liu Xiaobo’s imprisonment.


Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo. Image: Lunar New Year via Flickr.

Exactly five years ago, on December 6, 2008, Continue reading

Jailed Nobel Dissident Unlikely to be Released Early: Lawyer

2014-06-13

An undated file photo of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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Jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo is unlikely to be granted parole when his sentence comes up for review later this year, his lawyer said on Friday. Continue reading

Amnesty International UK:FREE LIU XIA

Liu Xia, a poet, artist and human rights defender, has been under illegal house arrest in Beijing since 2010 – when her husband, Dr Liu Xiaobo, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading

Rename the street DC Chinese Embassy is located to ‘Liu Xiaobo Street’ urges @NancyPelosi /Rep. Frank Wolf


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Rename Chinese embassy’s street in Washington, US lawmakers urge

May 30, 2014, 10:08 am


Rename Chinese embassy s street in Washington, US lawmakers urge

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Washington (AFP) – US lawmakers called Thursday for the street outside Continue reading

House members urge D.C. to name street for imprisoned Chinese dissident

BY AL KAMEN

May 29 at 4:51 pm

BEIJING, CHINA – 1989/06/01: Watched by thousands of protestors, one of the pro-democracy movement leaders talks into a microphone as he gives a press conference in Tiananmen Square. Continue reading