NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
LIU XIAOBO
Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo (54) was awarded the Nobel peace prize on Friday 8th September, 2010. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the award went to Mr Liu, who is in prison for his calls for political reform” for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in china”.
‘The Norwegian Nobel Committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace’.
The Chinese Foreign ministry warned that the award would adversely affect the ties between china and Norway.’Liu Xiaobo is a criminal who has been sentenced by Chinese judicial departments for violating Chinese law’.
Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo is the author of a controversial document Charter 08, which called for’ the rapid establishment of a free, democratic, and constitutional country ‘and an end to one party rule. Mr Liu was also a student leader during the Tiananmen Square student protests in 1989. Over the past two decades, he has spent several years in jail and in re education camps.
He was released in 1999, but sentenced again, in December last year, to 11 years in prison for subverting state power’ by releasing Charter 08.
While his efforts have brought him international attention. Mr Liu is little known in China. In the long term, the award is good news for China’s democratisation. Chinese activists welcomed the announcements. It is an encouragement for all those who are pushing for change and greater rights for citizens in China.
Prof. John Kurakar
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