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Opinion: Hu's Visit Clouded by Lingering Oppression

When Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington this week, he can expect a gracious welcome and a state dinner that he was denied on his first visit in 2006. But he can also expect tough discussions on trade, foreign exchange, national security and, hopefully, human rights. As head of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu...

Nancy Pelosi: Free Liu Xiaobo

On the stage before us was an empty chair. Blue and white, it has been filled by great champions of peace and justice, nonviolence and human rights: Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Mother Teresa and Elie Wiesel; His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. But, on this day, the chair was...

After Nobel, China Snubs Norway, but Not Norwegian Oil

(Dec. 13) -- After the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Beijing cracked down on human rights activists at home and lashed out at Norway and the West in general as "clowns" conspiring in "an anti-China farce." China suspended trade talks with Norway, canceled...

Nobel Yields Protests and a Single Empty Chair

(Dec. 10) -- Pro-democracy rallies from Hong Kong to Scandinavia, Chinese media censors clamping down on news of the country's most famous prisoner, and a single empty chair in Oslo -- all iconic images from today's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway. It's the first time since 1935 that the award hasn't been handed to...

Nobel Peace Ceremony Goes Ahead, With Empty Chair

OSLO, Norway (Dec. 10) - When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty - for this year's winner. Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in China on...

Liu Xiaobo News From the Web

04/16/12 Nilanjana S Roy: Bayonets and lies Source: Business Standard Few countries have a more fascinating list of bestsellers than China.

Background on Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo (born 28 December 1955) is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single-party rule in China.

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