Chinese dissidents celebrate Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize
We continue our coverage of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese dissident who was announced this morning as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. To learn more about Liu, we speak with a man who has known him for over 20 years. Wan Yanhai directs an AIDS awareness group, and was jailed in his home country of China three times in the past 12 years. He fled to Washington, D.C. earlier this year, and has been celebrating Liu’s honor all morning.
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