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China Human Rights and Rule of Law Update - No. 8 - November 9, 2010
Announcement
Statement of CECC Chairman Byron Dorgan and Cochairman Sander Levin on China's New Nobel Laureate: Liu Xiaobo
October 8, 2010
We applaud the Norwegian Nobel Committee's award today of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 to imprisoned Chinese writer and democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." For his more than two decades of advocating for freedom of speech, assembly, religion, peaceful democratic reform, transparency and accountability in China, Mr. Liu is currently serving an eleven-year sentence in a Chinese prison for "inciting subversion of state power." He reportedly is the first person since 1935 to win the prize while in prison.
Hearing: "Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and the Future of Political Reform in China"
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628
Witnesses:
Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, President, PEN American Center, and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Dr. Bruce Gilley, Professor of Political Science, Portland State University
Dr. Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Phelim Kine, China Researcher, Human Rights Watch