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Calling for Release of 2010 Noble Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo
Oakland, October 12th, 2010 – The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese prisoner of conscience. The announcement made by Norwegian Nobel Committee has gained great positive voices all around the world. As to us, we just share the same aspirations of Nobel Prize in awarding him “in pushing China towards political, legal and constitutional reforms”, stated by the Dalai Lama, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
We, United Nations for a Free Tibet, will and has taken a long-term care of Tibetan Human Rights. However, the heroic prisoners struggling for democracy in China are also our important friends, including hundreds of Chinese intellectuals and concerned citizens who call for democracy and freedom in China. Furthermore, we believe that any country in the world would be overshadowed if they violated this universal value, which we are deeply engaged in.
Intellectuals who tell the truth should be the conscience of our society. The government should cherish them rather than suppress. People are the future, not the minority of power control.
Here, we together make a common statement:
(1) Chinese government should immediately and unconditionally release Mr. Liu Xiaobo, and completely change the policy of the brutal suppression of democratic dissent.
(2) Chinese government should take measures to improve the human rights of China, and give an establishment of liberal democracy, as a positive response to the Nobel Peace Prize, including the approval of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Democratic governments should also openly request the approval of China as soon as possible.
(3) Democratic governments should abide by freedom, democracy, human rights and other universal values in handling exchanges with China, especially for the protection of human rights and personal freedom.
UNITED WE STAND. TIBET SHALL BE FREE.
