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19 hours ago ago from Daily Best Articles
Author: By Clifford Coonan in Beijing The Christmas Day sentence was handed down for the vague offence of subverting state power , a charge routinely used to jail dissidents. Mr Liu, who marks his 54th birthday on Monday and used to be a professor at Beijing Normal University, was one of the founding signatories of Charter 08, which is the closest thing to a pro-democracy movement that China has seen for years. It has called ...
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I am a long-term resident of China, working in an industry advertising in which productivity is inextricably linked to robust self-expression. Like most Western commentators, I am saddened by the conviction of Liu Xiaobo, who has been jailed for up to 11 years. His crime was to help draft a petition known as Charter 08 that demanded the right to free speech, open elections and the rule of law. Most observers believe Mr. Liu did not ...
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The jailing of leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is shameful and only serves to show what sort of country China remains as a Communist State. But, with the West so much in need of "working" with China - for instance, the US is greatly indebted to, and virtually captive, to the Chinese for helping bail out the American economy - it is virtually powerless to do anything about human rights, or the lack of them, in China. The NY Times ...
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14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I am a long-term resident of China, working in an industry -- advertising -- in which productivity is inextricably linked to robust self-expression. Like most Western commentators, I am saddened by the conviction of Liu Xiaobo, who has been jailed for up to 11 years. His crime was to help draft a petition known as Charter 08 that demanded the right to free speech, open elections and the rule of law. Most observers believe Mr. Liu did not ...
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