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Nobel laureates urge China to release Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo
More than 140 Nobel laureates led by archbishop Desmond Tutu urged China on Wednesday to release Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a rights activist jailed for subversion since 2009. In a letter also signed by 400,000 people from more than 130 countries, the laureates called on China’s president-in-waiting Xi…
China Nobel winner expected to avoid politics
China’s Nobel literature winner Mo Yan heads to Sweden Wednesday to collect his award, but he walks a delicate line with the authorities and is likely to avoid mentioning in his speech jailed fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo. Mo Yan has been hailed as a national hero since the prize announcement…
China’s Nobel in literature winner defends prize from dissidents calling him a ‘communist stooge’ — and Mao
Chinese author Mo Yan on Friday defended his Nobel prize from dissidents who accused him of being a communist stooge, and expressed hope for the early release of jailed fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo. Speaking after his Nobel literature prize sparked an outpouring of praise from the government, and sharp condemnation…
Detained China artist unaware of New York success
Dark, bare photos of modern Chinese society by Liu Xia, detained wife of China’s best known dissident, went on show in New York without her knowledge after they were spirited out of her country. The photos were brought out of China under the noses of the authorities by French academic,…
Chinese dissident goes into exile in U.S., says was tortured
BEIJING (Reuters) – One of China’s most prominent Christian dissidents, Yu Jie, has gone into exile to the United States after he said he was tortured in a crackdown on dissent, he told Reuters on Friday. Yu said he would give a detailed account of abuse and beating he suffered…
Chinese dissident flees to U.S.
WASHINGTON — A Chinese dissident who wrote a critical book about Premier Wen Jiabao has fled into exile in the United States, saying Thursday that he faced physical abuse and restrictions on publishing. Yu Jie, who in 2010 published in Hong Kong the book “Wen Jiabao: China’s Best Actor” despite…
Nobel laureates campaign to free China’s Liu
Five Nobel Peace Prize winners have launched a campaign to free last year’s laureate, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, saying they feared the world will forget that he is still imprisoned. Ahead of Saturday’s ceremony for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, past laureates and human rights groups announced a committee…
China peace prize awarded to Russia’s Putin
A group of Chinese academics has awarded its version of the Nobel Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin, an organiser said Tuesday, pointing to the Russian Prime Minister as “outstanding in keeping world peace.” Putin beat other candidates such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Yuan Longping, a Chinese agricultural scientist,…
Police warn China activist against speaking out
Chinese police have warned prominent government critic Hu Jiathat he will be detained again if he continues his activism and speaks to foreign media, human rights defenders said Monday. Hu, one of China’s leading rights campaigners, was released from prison in June after completing a more than three-year sentence for subversion. Police told Hu…
Wife of Chinese Nobel laureate placed under house arrest: US rights group
The wife of the Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, is being detained in her Beijing home, the spokeswoman for a US based rights group said Sunday, citing a reliable source in Beijing. “She is currently under de facto house arrest back in her apartment…
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