Liu Xiaobo

In China, let a thousand blogs bloom

2013-04-30 00:00:00

China employs an army of censors. As many as 50,000 well-trained monitors police the Internet, and 12 government departments are empowered to search and seize information and shut down users and sites. They work fast: A recent study conducted by two...

China activists urge visits to confined wife of dissident

2013-01-02 13:51:00

Her eyes showing anguish behind her glasses, Liu Xia whispers urgently into the ear of one of the Chinese activists who barrels past the guard at her Beijing apartment – a place that has become her prison. The brief video of their Friday...

Is Mo Yan courageous, or is he a patsy?

2012-12-17 13:40:00

Salman Rushdie thinks Mo Yan is a patsy of China’s Communist government. I respect Rushdie's work, and his own courage as a defender of artistic freedom. But I'm not sure he's right about Mo Yan. Mo accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature this...

What a bummer: Nobel laureate Mo Yan defends censorship

2012-12-06 14:24:00

Chinese author Mo Yan was announced in October as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature; he's in Sweden now and will be presented with the award Monday. It was at a news conference in Stockholm that Mo made his disappointing statements in support...

Chinese praise a Nobel 'first' -- ignoring past winner

2012-10-11 10:42:42

Suu Kyi to accept her Nobel in person; others didn't [Video]

2012-06-16 04:37:50

Open petition calls for Chinese leader's resignation

2012-05-16 21:39:14

Chinese dissident in U.S. tells of harassment, torture

2012-01-18 21:39:18

Tibetan shooting comes on heels of human rights criticism

2012-01-24 16:38:45

Imprisoned Russian entrepreneur puts pencil to paper

2011-10-25 16:34:38

Turkish publisher's arrest sparks outcry

2011-11-02 16:34:33

Museum of Tolerance hosts Lech Walesa at Solidarity anniversary celebration

2010-12-17 16:33:24

Imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in a graphic created by PEN.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland looks down at the Nobel certificate and medal on the empty chair where this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo would have sat, as a portrait of Liu is seen in the background, during the ceremony at Oslo

2010-12-10 00:00:00