Four independent human rights experts from the U.N. welcomed the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo of China. Xiaobo is currently imprisoned, having been convicted in 2009 for "inciting subversion of State power". He was sentenced to eleven years in prison and two years deprivation of human rights.
Xiaobo was awarded the prize for not only his imprisonment for standing up for human rights, but also for his continuous appeals to China to "release all people detained for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression and to respect the spirit of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the government is a signatory."
The article is well-written and is surprisingly little biased considering the source is the UN News Centre. It simply tells why he was imprisoned, what he is hoping to accomplish for human rights, and what UN officials such as Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, says about him.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36393&Cr=china&Cr1=
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