Liu Xiaobo’s Case

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...
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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...
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Nonviolence from Damascus and Manama to Moscow and Beijing: Why the Middle East revolution makes dictatorships tremble

Chibli Mallat is a law professor and a practicing attorney, and an active defender of human rights, constitutional law, and judicial accountabillity. He is Presidential Professor of Law at the University of Utah and EU Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at...
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Opening Remarks of the 7th Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference

Moving Forward Together Dear friends, dear brothers and sisters, It is heartening to see all of you coming to the Seventh Interethnic/Interfaith Leadership Conference.   When I think of the distances, especially the psychological distances that we have traveled to be...
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