China - 2010 Peace laureate languishes in Chinese jail in face of international indifference

Reporters without borders

As the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet, Reporters Without Borders notes that the 2010 recipient, the cyber-dissident Liu Xiaobo, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for nearly seven years. The organization urges the international community to put pressure on Beijing to release the citizen journalist. The Chinese government has been arbitrarily holding Liu Xiaobo, who was also awarded the 2004 RSF Prize, in Jinzhou Prison in Dalian, Liaoning (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 12 octobre 2015