From AOL NEWS:
Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, who is less than a year into an 11-year prison sentence for “subverting state power,” won the Nobel Peace Prize today — much to the chagrin of his communist government. President Barack Obama called on China to release him.
Shortly after the Nobel announcement, Liu’s wife told Reuters during a phone interview that plainclothes police had arrived at her home to take her away to the prison where her husband is being held so that she wouldn’t be able to talk to reporters. “They are forcing me to leave Beijing,” Liu Xia told the news agency. “They want to distance me from the media.”
In a statement, Obama, last year’s Nobel laureate, said: “We call on the Chinese government to release Mr. Liu as soon as possible,” according to The Washington Post…
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