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The Nobel prize-winner and Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo has died. He was several years into his 11 year sentence for his contribution to a pro-democracy manifesto which called for the end to China’s one-party rule.
China’s Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace prize – but how many people in China – including the man himself – know about his success, asks Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
I met Liu Xiaobo about a year before he launched Charter ’08, the manifesto for democracy in China which landed him in prison, and has now earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. He struck me as an intense and earnest man, an intellectual concerned with the philosophical basis of Chinese society, as well as the…
Growing up in China, Bessie Du was taught to share the joy of all Chinese winners in history – but how does this fit with China’s rejection of Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo?
As China denounces the award of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, Channel 4 News’ Lindsey Hilsum meets demonstrators who claim Xiaobo is a traitor.
On the eve of the ceremony to mark the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, wonders what the Chinese really think about the award.
Jon Snow
Liu Xiaobo’s selection for the Nobel Peace Prize was the right call, but does Washington and Whitehall’s concerns about his detention reek of hypocrisy following the arrest of Julian Assange, asks Jon Snow.
Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, reports on the China-inspired boycott of Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony when the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be honoured in his enforced absence.
Ah well. I had an interesting interview lined up for tomorrow, but it was not to be. The Chinese authorities, in their wisdom, have prevented Mo Shaoping – the lawyer for Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize – from leaving China.
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize. But fellow activist Ai Weiwei tells Channel 4 News it won’t change anything in China.
The Nobel Peace Prize is the most prestigious award of its kind, but after criticism over the committee’s politicisation and questions raised over recent winners, is the prize losing its credibility?
Sculptor Antony Gormley tells Channel 4 News the continued detention of renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is a “disaster” for the art world, but insists “state barbarism” will not be silenced.
The Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei remains missing after being detained at Beijing airport. A human rights expert tells Channel 4 News authorities will not say what the artist is accused of.
“I’m an individual, so how can you judge me by my government?”. Lindsey Hulsum is in Beijing, where she’s been talking to some of China’s elite students of international politics.
Both China and the USA have been taken by surprise, and neither quite knows how to deal with it, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum as the Chinese President visits America.