1. Tibetan writer is signatory of protest letter about political prisoners
ICT, October 15, 2010
The Tibetan writer Woeser and her Chinese husband Wang Lixiong were among more
than 100 signatories of a letter signed by writers, activists, and lawyers and published
yesterday urging the government to release the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and
other political prisoners. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010
/10/15/AR2010101502929.html).
The letter, issued last night (October 14) comes amid the detention and monitoring of
dissidents in China following the Nobel award to Liu Xiaobo, who is serving 11 years in
prison.
The letter congratulates Liu Xiaobo on the award, and states: "We call upon the
authorities to release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience who are in
detention for reasons such as their speech, their political views, or their religious beliefs.
We ask that legal procedures aimed at freeing Liu Xiaobo be undertaken without delay,
and that Liu and his wife be permitted to travel to Oslo to accept the Nobel peace prize."