Tuesday, September 21, 2010

News at Eleven: Mayor Jón Gnarr hosted ex-Beijing mayor Liu Qi

at Reykjavík City hall today. Liu Qi is also the General Secretary of the Beijing Communist Party and was chairman of the organizing committee for the Olympics in 2008.

Mayor Gnarr used the occasion and handed the Chinese visitor a letter in which the Reykjavík Mayor demands release of the poet Liu Xianbo from jail.

from Iceland Review: Mayor Jón Gnarr wants Poet free from Chinese Prison

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