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Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Mocked over Nobel

by UNCENSORED NEWS | December 9, 2010 at 05:46 am

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China officials are not pleased by the Nobel award which honored Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. To them he is still a criminal and will remain behind bars. The event held Thursday which turned him into a celebrity has been a conflict debated by the Chinese government. They will not allow his wife to leave her home to go to Norway to pick up the cash - a million and a half dollars in prize money awarded to her husband. Many Chinese nationals have disputed the stance taken by the Chinese government and protest the criticism. "Liu, a 54-year-old literary critic and democracy advocate, is serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion handed down last year after he co-authored a bold appeal for human rights and political reform. Previously almost unknown even within China, he has in recent weeks been transformed into a cause-celebre among global rights activists and a source of curiosity to young, Internet-savvy Chinese."

Thursday, as criticism of Beijing rose and the imprisoned Chinese dissident seemed to be turning into a celebrity. While China has successfully pressured more than a dozen countries not to attend Friday's ceremony to honor Liu Xiaobo and began blocking foreign media coverage of the event on the Internet Thursday, analysts said its efforts also appeared to be galvanizing the West, reminding democracies of the gulf between them and Beijing.

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at 06:27 on December 9th, 2010

China's biggest fear is political unrest among it people. They don't want another 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre/Crackdown. They will squash any hint of an open thinking ideology among it's people now. It really only hurts China in the end. Killing a creative or dynamic political and inspirational environment among it's people. 1

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at 07:02 on December 9th, 2010

Yes I agree

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at 08:54 on December 9th, 2010

Dissidence is not a crime,nor it should be suppressed.But what is intriguing is that recipients always hail from countries which are not cronies of US empire.Never a Saudi dissident is even shorlisted for such a prize,languishes in prison all his life,if not eliminated by police.Saudi regime too doesn't allow dissidence.Amnesty International's report on voilation of human rights in Middle-East falls on deaf ears.I am not justifying Chinese at all.But what I abhor is double standards.We can never create a free society if we have two yardsticks.

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at 05:18 on December 10th, 2010

I have just posted an email to the Chinese Ambassador to London expressing disgust at his support for the suppression of the nobel prize winner and at his contempt for humanity in general My account was immediately blocked by hotmail on account of 'unusual activity' I was asked to put a mobile phone contact in to receive a text to reactivate but refused This may mean nothing but be on your guard - international trade will stop at nothing to increase profit over the rights of individual freedom of expression I would still encourage you all to use the type of software employed recently by wikileaks to bombard the embassy in London if you live there , with protest against China's continuing suppressio of its own people in the most brutal way