China - Remember Liu Xiaobo – the only Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison

Reporters without borders

Awaiting the announcement of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Reporters Without Borders issues a call to remember that dissident Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 laureate, will mark his sixth year of imprisonment in December. Notably absent from the ceremony to grant him the award, Liu Xiaobo is serving an 11-year sentence at Jinzhou Prison in Dalian, Liaoning Province, east of Beijing. Liu Xiaobo is one of the founders of “Charter 08,” a daring public call for fundamental political reforms, (...)

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