Taiwan’s Ma Urges Beijing On Dissidents: Report

From AFP:

Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou has called on Chinese authorities to “tolerate” political opponents after they jailed a leading dissident, it was reported Sunday.

The remarks by Ma, of the China-friendly Kuomintang party, came after a Beijing court on Friday sentenced Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.”

“Pursuing democracy and human rights has been a persistent goal of my political career and …since I took the office last year,” Ma replied while asked to comment on Liu’s case, the Liberty Times reported.

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