Reuters: Activists Challenge Beijing Over Nobel Prisoner
About 200 Chinese
dissidents and rights advocates called the Nobel Peace Prize for jailed
dissident Liu Xiaobo a "splendid choice" that should push China to
embrace democratic reform, challenging a clampdown on dissent.
The statement urged authorities to "immediately release the people who have been illegally detained" after Liu, serving an 11-year jail term for advocating democratic reform, received the prize and the ruling Communist Party moved to squash any efforts to voice support for him and his demands.
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The statement urged authorities to "immediately release the people who have been illegally detained" after Liu, serving an 11-year jail term for advocating democratic reform, received the prize and the ruling Communist Party moved to squash any efforts to voice support for him and his demands.
Read the entire article here.
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