ChinaChristians: honor Liu: Chinese prisoner of conscience, writer, honored in Hong Kong ceremony

Hong Kong Christian groups join in honouring 
Nobel prize laureate Liu Xiaobo 
Hong Kong (ENInews). About 1000 people in Hong Kong joined a celebration co-organized by Christian groups to honour imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in a celebration coinciding with the Nobel ceremony in Oslo. The Hong Kong Christian Institute and the local Roman Catholic Justice and Peace Commission organized the gathering with non-governmental groups to commend Liu, urging Beijing to release him and other political prisoners on 10 December. Liu has been imprisoned since 2009 as part of an 11ˆyear sentence for "inciting the subversion of State power". "Beijing should know that to confer the Nobel Peace Prize on Mr. Liu is not to confront the Chinese people. Human rights are universal values, and should be abided by all," Catholic Hong Kong legislator Alan Leong Kah-kit told ENInews at the Hong Kong meeting.  [467 words, ENI-10-0803]


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Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize 

and the persecuted Church in China

Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese human rights activist who recently gained deserved international honor and attention for his role in standing in the gap for the victims of totalitarian oppression in China, where he is currently imprisoned. His reception this December of the Nobel Prize  focuses world attention on the plight of those under persecution [...] liu Xiaobo is a Chinese human rights activist who recently gained deserved international honor and attention for his role in standing in the gap for the victims of totalitarian oppression in China, where he is currently imprisoned. His reception this December of the Nobel Prize  focuses world attention on the plight of those under persecution [...]

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