China - Don't forget Liu Xiaobo, held for the past five years

Reporters without borders

Four years ago today, a Beijing court sentenced the leading Chinese free speech advocate Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, to 11 years on prison on a charge of subverting state authority. Reporters Without Borders reiterates its full support for him and his family and stresses the importance of his fight. And it is publishing a cartoon by the French cartoonist Michel Cambon in homage to him. “The Chinese government has tried to silence Liu Xiaobo by every means possible so (...)

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