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Writers Rally for Liu Xiaobo
On New Year’s Eve, Don DeLillo, Edward Albee, A.M. Homes, and others gathered to demand the release of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, sentenced to 11 years in prison. Read… More
Leading Authors Demonstrate Against Jailing of Liu Xiaobo
Acclaimed US authors including EL Doctorow, Don DeLillo and Edward Albee gathered on the steps of the New York Public Library on New Year's Eve to protest against the… More
Calls to Free Dissident
CNN's Anjali Rao talks with Kwame Appiah of the Pen American Center about the jailing of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. More
Doctorow, Albee Protest 11-Year Sentence for Chinese Writer Liu
Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow and other prominent writers demanded the release of jailed Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo at a rally today in front of New York’s main public library. More
Writers Rally for Jailed Chinese Dissident
Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, Edward Albee and A.M. Holmes were among the writers who gathered Thursday to call on China to release writer and activist Liu Xiaobo, who was… More
PEN Writers To Protest Imprisonment of Chinese Dissident
Major writers will gather in New York this morning to call for the release of Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo. On Christmas Day, Liu Xiaobo was sentenced… More
Writers Rally to Protest Imprisonment of Chinese Dissident
Writers from the PEN American Center, an advocacy group that works to defend free expression around the world, staged a New Year’s Eve rally this morning on the steps… More
Chinese Activist Liu Gets 11 Years
A Chinese court sentenced Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent dissident, to 11 years in prison for criticizing the government, an unusually long sentence that rights activists say suggests other… More
Chinese Author Liu Xiaobo Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
Following a trial that lasted less than three hours, a Beijing court has sentenced Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo to 11-years in prison and and "two years' deprivation of political… More
Chinese Dissident Faces Trial Despite Calls for His Release
Prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested in 1989 for his role in the Tiananmen Square protest, faces trial Wednesday for allegedly "inciting subversion" in a more recent… More
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