China - Liu Xiaobo, last year's Nobel peace laureate, still in prison

Reporters without borders

In the wake of today's announcement that this year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni rights activist Tawakkul Karman, Reporters Without Borders urges the laureates to press the Chinese government to free last year's winner of the award, Liu Xiaobo. A dissident writer and intellectual who is serving an 11-year jail sentence, Liu is the only Nobel peace laureate currently in prison. “We (...)

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