<![CDATA[Honoring Liu Xiaobo: 5 Reasons Why What Happens To Arrested Chinese Writer Liu Matters To Everyone]]>

1.0 link 190674 <![CDATA[Honoring Liu Xiaobo: 5 Reasons Why What Happens To Arrested Chinese Writer Liu Matters To Everyone]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/liu-xiaobo-5-reasons-why_n_190674.html By Larry Siems, PEN American Center

Next week, PEN American Center will award one of its highest honors, the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese intellectual and literary critic who played a pivotal role in Tiananmen Square 20 years ago and who has been in and out of jail ever since for his uncompromising activism for freedom of expression in China.

On December 8, 2008, Liu Xiaobo was arrested again, this time for his involvement in...

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