{"id":7799,"date":"2016-11-27T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2016-11-28T02:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T07:44:52","slug":"tienchi-liao-an-empty-chair-for-liu-xiaobo-on-the-2016-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/tienchi-liao-an-empty-chair-for-liu-xiaobo-on-the-2016-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony","title":{"rendered":"Tienchi Liao: An empty chair for Liu xiaobo on the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2016\/11\/Liu-Xiaobo-Nobel-Prize.jpg\" alt=\"liu-xiaobo-nobel-prize\" width=\"480\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2016\/11\/Liu-Xiaobo-Nobel-Prize.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2016\/11\/Liu-Xiaobo-Nobel-Prize-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>To Chair Woman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee<br \/>\nMrs. Kaci Kullmann<\/p>\n<p>Former Chairman<br \/>\nMr. Thorbjorn Jagland<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mrs. Kullmann,<br \/>\nDear Mr. Jagland,<\/p>\n<p>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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We the undersigned, mostly are students of the the vocational school of Kempen, Germany, plead you to place an empty chair for Mr. Liu Xiaobo on the stage during this year&#8217;s ceremony in Oslo on December 10, just like what the Committee did at 2010&#8217;s ceremony, when Liu Xiaobo was absent on that day.<\/p>\n<p>With this gesture, you will remind the world that the laureate of 2010 is still suffering under the political persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much in advance<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours<\/p>\n<p>Tienchi Martin-Liao<br \/>\n(President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center)<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Chair Woman of the Norwegian Nobel Co &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/tienchi-liao-an-empty-chair-for-liu-xiaobo-on-the-2016-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,51,91],"tags":[1930,1929,1384,1341,498,1268,1753],"views":8038,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7806,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/7806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}