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Liu Xiaobo’s International Legal Team Files Petition on UN

TO OBTAIN OPINIONS THAT HIS IMPRISONMENT AND WIFE’S HOUSE ARREST ARE IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Washington, DC: Today, Liu Xiaobo’s pro bono international legal team filed an urgent action petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of...

Wife of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Designates Harvard Fellow as Liaison to Nobel Committee

Washington, D.C. October 25, 2010 - The wife of the jailed 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has asked longtime friend, and fellow democracy activist, Dr. Yang Jianli, to coordinate on her behalf all the activities associated with the awarding of the 2010...

If China Frees Nobel Winner, It Will Show Its Strength

By Václav Havel and Desmond M. Tutu Friday, October 22, 2010; A27 Washington Post Immediately after the imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this month, for more than two decades of pursuing democratic change in China, the Chinese government...

China Detains Nobel Peace Prize Winner’s Wife: U.S. Rights Group

Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia By Susan Heavey (Reuters) - Chinese authorities are detaining the wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Price laureate Liu Xiaobo at her Beijing apartment, a U.S. human rights group said on Sunday. In a statement, Freedom...