being nominated for or being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize provides an unquestionable degree of protection for imprisoned dissidents in China, for those whose individual freedoms have been illegally suppressed. It improves the poor conditions in which they are held. Without it, their situation would be much worse. Liu Xiaobo can be expected one day to testify to the effect of the Nobel Peace Prize on his prison conditions.Liu Xiaobo is in prison because he helped draft "Charter 08." In the three years since its launch, 13,000 people have signed this charter--only one person out every 100,000 in China. This situation is a result of the terror and online censorship mechanisms that the Chinese leaders have imposed on Chinese society.
[--Hu Jia]
from Reporters Without Borders: Message of support from Hu Jia for 2010 Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia
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