Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

Un-Merry Christmas Greetings
Liu's Christmas Day sentencing in 2009 angered the populace in China's Westernized Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, where police protected Beijing's Liaison Office in the former British colony. While Charter 08 received no coverage within China after its release in December 2008, thousands of Chinese within the country, including Hong Kong, and overseas signed the petition online, a situation that embarrassed the Chinese government so soon after coming off the highs of the Olympic Games spotlight.

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