Prisoners of Conscience

CECC: Statement on the Medical Parole of Nobel Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo

Chairs Urge President Trump To Seek Immediate Transfer to U.S. for Treatment, Medical Parole for Other Detained Dissidents in Poor Health June 26, 2017 (Washington, DC)-Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris Smith, the chair and cochair respectively of the...
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IFC/CP Statement on Liu Xiaobo’s Condition

We are shocked and saddened to learn that China's only Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has recently been diagnosed with advanced liver cancer. We are relieved that he has been released from prison for medical treatment. However, we are seriously concerned that the...
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A High-Proof Tribute to Tiananmen’s Victims Finds a Way Back to China

  By Didi Kirsten Tatlow May 30, 2017 BEIJING - It's a big journey for a little bottle, even one so potent in alcohol and symbolism. The liquor bottle - whose label commemorates the 1989 crackdown on democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing - made a...
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Free China’s Heroes Initiative: CECC Highlights Prisoners of Conscience Cases in Advance of President Xi Jinping’s Visit

Free China's Heroes Initiative: CECC Highlights Prisoners of Conscience Cases in Advance of President Xi Jinping’s Visit #FreeChinasHeroes WASHINGTON, DC (April 3, 2017) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ)—chair and co-chair of...
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