Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

"We Are All Liu Xiaobo"
Lawmakers in Hong Kong's Legislative Council wore masks of Liu on Jan. 13, 2010, to protest his sentencing and press for his release. A day before Liu's Dec. 23 trial (which lasted all of two hours), a U.S. State Department spokesman had declared, "As far as we can tell, this man's crime was simply signing a piece of paper that aspires to a more open and participatory form of government. That is not a crime." The sentence was condemned by the U.S., the E.U. and Western governments. China's Foreign Ministry, however, called all criticism of Liu's trial "gross interference in China's internal affairs."

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