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Nobel Peace Prize should go to Liu Xiaobo

Categories: East Asia, China, Citizen Media, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Politics

Xu Youyu, philosopher and professor with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, wrote an open letter [1] (English translation here [2]) to call for international support for this year's Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned author of China's Charter 08.  Meanwhile, C. Custer at ChinaGeeks commented on [3] the grapevine that a Chinese organization is hoping to create and award one of their own peace prize, called the ‘Silk Road Peace Prize’.