Tag Archives: Charter 08

  • NS Venkataraman Let memorial for Liu Xiaobo be built elsewhere, if not in China 16 July 2017 | NS Venkataraman This post has 2 comments

    Certainly there must be millions of people around the world who want the memory of Liu to be kept alive and his call for freedom and liberty in China remembered for all time to come. ...

  • China’s Nobel laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo dies in custody 13 July 2017 This post has no comments yet

    Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo died aged 61, more than a month after he was transferred from prison to a heavily-guarded hospital to be treated for late-stage liver cancer ...

  • Chinese scholars push for mild political reform 26 December 2012 | Didi Tang and Gillian Wong This post has no comments yet

    More than 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers have urged the country's new Communist Party leaders to undertake moderate political reforms including separating the party from government. ...

  • China rejects calls for dissident’s release 15 December 2009 This post has no comments yet

    China on Tuesday rejected as "unacceptable" US and EU calls to release prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo, who appears headed for trial on subversion charges after calling for political reform in China. Both the US and EU on Monday urged China to free Liu and end the harassment and detention of the dissidents. ...

  • Hu Jintao takes personal charge of fight against Charter 08 7 January 2009 | Mark O'Neill This post has no comments yet

    There is little chance that the Chinese government can snuff out Charter 08, the most serious intellectual challenge to the Communist Party since the student-led protests of 1989, ...

  • China seen facing wave of unrest in 2009 6 January 2009 | Chris Buckley This post has no comments yet

    China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from a sharp economic downturn. ...