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Canadian writers protest the detention of Liu Xiaobo
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Publisher:  PEN Canada
Date Written:  22/01/2009
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article

Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and Nino Ricci and more than 40 members of PEN Canada, the writers' association, have signed a petition on behalf of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Abstract:  Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and Nino Ricci and more than 40 members of PEN Canada, the writers' association, have signed a petition on behalf of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. In a statement co-signed by over 300 major writers, such as Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, Ma Jian and J. M. Coetzee, International PEN has called on the Chinese government to grant the "immediate and unconditional release of Liu Xiaobo and all those currently detained in the People's Republic of China for th...
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