Empty Seat at Nobel Peace Prize

Statement on Mo Yan's Winning Nobel Literature Prize

Initiatives For China (Citizen Power For China) congratulates Mr. Mo Yan on winning this years Nobel Literature Prize, which makes him the third Chinese from mainland China to receive a Nobel prize. The other two Nobel laureates are Gao Xingjian and Liu Xiaobo, one is...

Letter to Assistant Secretary Posner Regarding Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo

Honorable Michael Posner Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 July 22, 2012 Dear Assistant Secretary Posner, We are writing to urge you to firmly press China to free Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo...

Don't Let Liu Xia Stand Alone

A reliable source told IFC that Liu Xia, the wife of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, is still under house arrest. Recently two old friends of Liu Xia, Cui Weiping and Liu Di, were worried about her being too lonely and decided to visit her. Unfortunately they were...

Three Chinas and Liu Xiaobo

Text of Speech at Oslo Freedom Forum, the 4th Annual May 9, 2012, Oslo Everyone asks: Why is China, a seemingly increasingly assertive world power, afraid of a single man like Liu Xiaobo? Why is it afraid of a moderate document like Charter 08, a manifesto authored by...