this year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni rights activist Tawakkul Karman, Reporters Without Borders urges the laureates to press the Chinese government to free last year's winner of the award, Liu Xiaobo.A dissident writer and intellectual who is serving an 11-year jail sentence, Liu is the only Nobel peace laureate currently in prison.
"We congratulate this year's laureates and welcome the fact that this triple award pays tribute to their work on behalf of women's rights, a vital cause," Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said. "We urge Sirleaf, Gbowee and Karman to bring all their moral weight to bear on the Chinese government so that Liu can be released and the harassment of his family and friends can end.
"Liu's continuing detention and the especially strict surveillance of his family should be the subject of a major campaign by all human rights activists. A year after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu is not only still detained but is also subject to most strict solitary confinement and is being denied the family visits that the law allows him. This situation is unacceptable."
from Reporters Without Borders: Liu Xiaobo, last year's Nobel peace laureate, still in prison
then Radio Free Asia: Nobel Laureate Granted Family Visits
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