Chinese Dissidents Sign Letter Supporting Nobel Winner

[bemildred]

Source: NYT

BEIJING — Joining a recent flurry of calls for political reform, more than 100 Chinese intellectuals and dissidents signed and posted an online letter Friday asking that the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo be released from prison and that government security officers stop harassing his wife Liu Xia.

In line with Charter ’08, the pro-democracy manifesto that Mr. Liu co-authored and which led to his imprisonment, signers of the new letter also asked that government leaders “make good on their oft-repeated promise to reform the political system.”


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/world/asia/16chinabrief.html

[Uncle Joe]

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Thanks for the thread, bemildred.