Posted on 10/09/2010 10:31:44 AM PDT by Justaham
The world's newest Nobel Peace Prize winner remained unreachable in a Chinese prison Saturday, while his wife's mobile phone was cut off and the authoritarian government continued to censor reports about democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo's honor.
Police kept reporters away from the prison where Liu is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, and his lawyer said that Liu's wife — who had been hoping to visit him Saturday and tell him the news of the award — has "disappeared" and he is worried she may be in police custody.
Chinese authorities, who called Liu a criminal shortly after his award Friday and said his winning "desecrates the prize," sank Saturday into official silence.
Only an editorial in the state-run Global Times newspaper spoke out Saturday, saying in English, "Obviously, the Nobel Peace Prize this year is meant to irritate China, but it will not succeed. On the contrary, the committee disgraced itself."
The paper's Chinese-language edition called the award "an arrogant showcase of Western ideology" and said it disrespected the Chinese people.
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Gasp
A Disaster
People in Mississippi might end up with jobs...
Can't have that
That would be bad, real bad.
If people had jobs, they would just waist the money on savings accounts, those of us with jobs would get raises, and we could pay off our credit.
Nope, in the name of union hating we MUST keep China rolling along.
FYI, in discussions and interviews with reporters, Chinese officials are pretending they don’t know who she is or that she even exists. Very surreal.
Oh! , I thought the piece was going to be about the First Wookie taking for long ride on the Millennium Falcon
LOL!
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