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Washington Post
| over 2 years ago
A group of former Communist Party officials has weighed in on a debate over political reform, censorship and China's premier, bluntly criticizing the party's Central Propaganda Department as an "invisible black hand" powerful enough to censor the...
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Hindustan times
| over 2 years ago
The wife of Chinese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year jail term for inciting subversion of state power, is demanding unconditional release of her husband and also considering appealing to a higher court to...
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Japan Times
| over 2 years ago
Not surprisingly the award comes over the objections of the Chinese government, which considers Mr. Liu a criminal. We applaud the decision and the outstanding work of Mr. Liu, who has labored for years to bring democracy to his country. Mr. Liu is a...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 2 years ago
The US today demanded the release of jailed Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and asked China to improve on the human rights situation in the country, in remarks that may put fresh strains in ties between the two world powers. However, the White...
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Zee News
| over 2 years ago
Liu Xiaobo's prison conditions improved after Nobel: Wife Paris: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's prison conditions improved significantly after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, his wife said in an interview published Wednesday in the French...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
ET The Associated Press Lu Xia has been placed under virtual house arrest at her apartment in Beijing after her jailed husband Lu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 8. (Associated Press) A diplomatic rift between Norway and China deepened...
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Seattle Times
| over 2 years ago
Sweden A diplomatic rift between Norway and China deepened Wednesday as Oslo asked Beijing to lift restrictions imposed on the wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and China canceled a string of meetings with Norwegian officials. Norwegian...
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Asia Times Online
| over 2 years ago
What is the value, the weight, and the pain of a Nobel Prize for the Chinese government? A few days after the announcement of the Oslo prize and the self-celebrating rivers of ink shed abroad for wounding the pride of the emerging power, the pain and...
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Japan Today
| over 2 years ago
China needs to act in line with the international community's feelings in its handling of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, the top Japanese government spokesman said Wednesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku said...
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Channel NewsAsia
| over 2 years ago
The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo said Wednesday she was prevented from meeting with a Norwegian diplomat as authorities kept her under tight house arrest. Liu Xia has been largely confined to her home since Friday when the...
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The Scotsman
| over 2 years ago
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said the award to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo last week showed a lack of respect for China's judicial system and damaged ties between the two countries. In Oslo, the Nobel Committee said it would be "...
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SF Gate
| over 2 years ago
The wife of the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo said Tuesday she hopes to travel to Norway to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on his behalf, though for now she can only.
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Hindustan times
| over 2 years ago
When Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dedicated his award to the Tiananmen martyrs, he reminded the world of the thousands who suffered death, injury or imprisonment after the brutal military crackdown on Chinese democracy protesters in 1989. I...
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News 24
| over 2 years ago
The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo said on Tuesday that he had asked her to travel to Norway in his stead to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, while admitting that this would be "complicated". Liu's award was announced on Friday, to the...
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The Daily Star
| over 2 years ago
Beijing said Tuesday awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo would not influence China's political system, as the US urged Beijing to lift restrictions on the activist's wife. The comments came as Liu's lawyers said they were considering asking...
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Christian Science Monitor
| over 2 years ago
The case of Liu Xiaobo, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, shows it hasn't. Human rights are the prerequisite for the 'fraternity between nations.' Phoenix I heartily applaud the Nobel Committee for awarding its Peace Prize to the imprisoned Liu...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 2 years ago
China today held the Norwegian government responsible for the "erroneous" decision of the Nobel Committee to name jailed activist Liu Xiaobo for the coveted Peace Prize and accused other countries of using the award to attack it. In an apparent...
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Voice of America
| over 2 years ago
Articles China has again lashed out at the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. A Foreign Ministry spokesman also made clear that Beijing blames the Norwegian government for the award...Ma says the Norwegian Nobel...
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Canada.com
| over 2 years ago
China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has asked his wife to collect the award in Oslo, she said on Tuesday, as the Chinese government pressed the case that it is the victim of Western prejudice and plotting. China has been infuriated by...
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The Guardian
| over 2 years ago
Frederic Brown/AFP/Getty Images The wife of the imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo fears the Chinese government will prevent her from collecting the peace prize on her husband's behalf amid rising anger in Beijing at the announcement . In a...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
In the first comprehensive and public response to the awarding of the prize, the government warned other nations to think again when considering making an issue of the Nobel Prize and not to meddle in China's internal affairs...The ABC asked Mr Ma...
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International Herald Tribune
| over 2 years ago
Wife Published: October 12, 2010 Filed at 4:41 a.m. AP) China accused foreign governments Tuesday of interfering in its political system by praising the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to an imprisoned dissident, while his wife said prison...
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Hindustan times
| over 2 years ago
Prison authorities have started giving Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo better food, the dissident's wife said today, while she herself faces restrictions on whom she can meet and must be accompanied by police escort whenever she leaves her home.
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International Herald Tribune
| over 2 years ago
Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a jailed dissident showed lack of respect for China's legal system, the government said on Tuesday, in further criticism of an award that has stirred tensions over human rights. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu...
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Channel NewsAsia
| over 2 years ago
Australian lawmakers will next week vote on a motion calling for the release of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, an MP said Tuesday, in a move that could anger Beijing. Michael Danby, a member of the ruling Labor party and...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
Story continues below Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison in December last year on subversion charges after co-authoring Charter 08, a bold manifesto calling for political change in communist-ruled China. He was awarded the prize by the Oslo-...
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Daily Nation
| over 2 years ago
Stories The United States on Tuesday called on China to lift any restrictions on the movements of the wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who has said she is under house arrest. "We remain concerned by multiple reports that Liu Xia is being...
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Hindustan times
| over 2 years ago
The US embassy in Beijing urged China on Tuesday to lift any restrictions on the wife of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize whose award has stirred tensions over human rights. Liu is serving 11 years in jail on...
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Reuters
| over 2 years ago
Protesters hold up placards with images of jailed Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration in Hong Kong October 10, 2010. The U.S. embassy in Beijing urged China on Tuesday to lift any restrictions on the wife of jailed dissident...
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Scoop
| over 2 years ago
He had previously been jailed four times because of his articles about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre and his urging of China's Government to move peacefully to democracy. China's Constitution enshrines the freedom of expression defended by Liu...
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Newstalk ZB
| over 2 years ago
Labour Leader Phil Goff says anyone who wins the prize deserves praise and Mr Liu definitely comes in that category because he's consistently stood up for human rights and democracy. He says China's made progress in that area but he'd like to see...
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Leader Post Online
| over 2 years ago
The Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo showed the West cannot stomach the idea of China's rise, state-run newspapers said on Monday, adding to the government's furious condemnation of the award...Some state-controlled newspapers said...
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The Salt Lake City Tribune
| over 2 years ago
Updated 5 minutes ago The wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been placed under house arrest in Beijing and barred from communicating with media and friends, said pressure group Human Rights in China.
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Inquirer.net
| over 2 years ago
United StatesLiu Xiaobo, the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has dedicated his award to the "lost souls" who died during the repression of the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement, an international rights group said Sunday. Liu Xiaobo'...
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International Herald Tribune
| over 2 years ago
The wife of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo , was allowed to meet with her husband on Sunday at the prison in northeastern China where he is serving an 11-year sentence for his pro-democracy writings, according to a message she...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
Liu Xiaobo's wife Liu Xia as saying she spoke to him shortly after learning that he had been awarded the prestigious honour. "This award is for the lost souls of June Fourth," the group quotes Liu Xiaobo as telling Liu Xia, referring to the 1989...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
Schwanke told AFP that after it was announced on Friday that her husband had been awarded the Nobel prize, Liu's phone was taken away and she was informed that she was detained. Advertisement: Story continues below The detention took place after she...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 2 years ago
My mobile phone was broken and I have no way to take calls, Ms...Her house arrest was confirmed by Freedom Now, a team of international human rights activists that represents Mr. Liu...Liu said that when her husband found out about the Nobel Prize,...
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Financial Times
| over 2 years ago
They could quite easily have come from Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese activist serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of his long record of calling for gradual political change.
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KSAZ
| over 2 years ago
The Chinese government is detaining Liu Xia, wife of the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, at her Beijing apartment, the human rights group Freedom Now reported Sunday. In a press release, the Washington-based group said Liu Xia had not been...
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International Herald Tribune
| over 2 years ago
Chinese authorities are detaining the wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Price laureate Liu Xiaobo at her Beijing apartment, a U.S. human rights group said on Sunday. In a statement, Freedom Now said that Liu Xia has not been charged...
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Reuters
| over 2 years ago
Analysis & Opinion Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia pose in this undated photo released by his family on October 3, 2010. Chinese authorities are detaining the wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Price laureate Liu...
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The Guardian
| over 2 years ago
Kin Cheung/AP More than 30 Chinese intellectuals have been detained, warned or placed under house arrest in a crackdown to stifle celebration of the Nobel peace prize being awarded to the imprisoned democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo . Among those facing...
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Hindustan times
| over 2 years ago
The wife of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo met her jailed husband on Sunday, according to a Hong Kong-based human rights group, apparently to inform him he had won the prestigious award. The Information Centre for Human Rights and...
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Seattle Times
| over 2 years ago
China The wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize remained out of contact for a second day Sunday, making it hard to confirm whether authorities had allowed her to meet with her husband and tell him about the award. The...
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Examiner
| over 2 years ago
All electronic media links to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, are being blacked out by the nation's irate authorities. HOW: Typing Liu Xiaobo or even Nobel Prize on Chinese search engines,...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 2 years ago
Ma made the remarks in a press release after he was asked to comment on the award, which was announced earlier in Oslo, Norway. Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Dec 25, 2009, after a Beijing court convicted him of agitation aimed at...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 2 years ago
It was a controversial selection that said more about the politics of the Nobel committee than it did about the president's achievements on justice or peace. Last week, the Nobel committee got back to basics by giving the prize to imprisoned Chinese...
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Channel NewsAsia
| over 2 years ago
The wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo remained missing Sunday, amid reports police were taking her to a prison in northeast China to inform her husband of the prestigious award. Liu Xia told AFP on Friday she was elated by the award...
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The Guardian
| over 2 years ago
A superb choice for the peace prize that China can't ignore Awarding a Nobel to Liu Xiaobo has served to amplify his pro-democratic voice Editorial The Chinese government was naturally displeased by the announcement last week that Liu Xiaobo, jailed...
