UN Panel Demands that China Free Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo and His Wife
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the U.N. issued opinions that Liu Xiaobo and his wife both be released from imprisonment and house arrest, respectively. From Washington Post:
A U.N. panel of independent legal experts is demanding that China immediately free Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo ...
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The Party-state will almost surely either ignore or denounce the UN Working Panel’s recommendations. The maintenance of one-party authoritarian rule would be put at risk if its security forces were to abide by international norms of tolerance of dissent and open expression of views.