Topic: Liu Xiaobo

China’s conscience

Financial Times - 10 days ago
Selected Essays and Poems, by Liu Xiaobo, edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao and Liu Xia, Harvard, RRP£22.95, 400 pages The final chapter of...

Chinese dissident flees to U.S. and describes torture

WorldBlog: msnbc.com - 13 days ago
Alex Wong / Getty Images. . Chinese dissident writer Yu Jie speaks to the media during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington...

Nobel laureates campaign to free China's Liu

AFP Global Edition - 60 days ago
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 ...

Nobel Peace Prize to Liberian president, Arab Spring, or EU?

AFP Global Edition - 123 days ago
Africa's first democratically elected woman president, cyber activists who helped bring about the Arab Spring uprising or maybe the European Union? Speculation ahead of Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement is rife.The Norwegian Nobel Committee that attributes the prize had ...

China Detains Dissident Artist

Big Think - 308 days ago
IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . Apparently fearing reverberations from the political uprisings in the Middle East and Africa, Chinese...

China tries to block speech to UN Human Rights Council

Full Comment - 328 days ago
ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images). Chinese dissident Yang Jianli attended the Nobel Prize ceremony for absent winner Liu Xiaobo in Oslo, on December...

Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Who will censure the censors?

Full Comment - 398 days ago
2011 — the year it all went to hell Civil servants may not be able to spank their kids any more, but they can surf for porn at work. Fair trade?....

Rally for Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong

American Banking News - 408 days ago
"Rally for Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong" is categorized as "world". This video was licensed from Grab Networks. The copyright notice of this video is...

Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Is there no limit to Michael Ignatieff's talents?

Full Comment - 410 days ago
The professor is out Did you know that Michael Ignatieff is the “author of possibly the best history of prison reform, A Just Measure of Pain: The...

The Nine Ways China Blocks American Media

24/7 Wall St. - 418 days ago
In China this week, if you wanted to watch news of Liu Xiaobo, the now famous Chinese dissident and democracy advocate who won this year's Nobel...