Please join us Oct 8, 8 p.m. demand immediate release of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo
WHAT: Candlelight vigil for Nobel Peace
Laureate Liu Xiaobo -
demand his immediate release
劉曉波獲得挪威諾貝爾委員會宣布為2010年的和平獎得主
WHEN: Friday, October 8, 2010 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
WHERE: Consulate of the Peoples Republic of China, 434
Shatto
Place,
Los
Angeles,
Ca.
90020
CONTACT: Visual Artists Guild, Ann Lau 310-433-0697
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Nobel Peace prize for 2010 has been announced
today. Liu Xiaobo, a writer and human rights activist in China has
been awarded the prize. Liu is currently imprisoned by the government
of the Peoples Republic for initiating a document called Charter 08.
He was sentenced to 11 years for subversion on Christmas Day, 2009.
Charter 08 is a manifesto which reiterated many of the
rights as set forth in the Universal declaration of human rights. It
was modeled after Charter 77 by Czechoslovakian writers and
intellectuals, among then Vaclav Havel, in 1977 calling for change in
that country.
SPORSORS:
Asian-Pacific Human Rights Foundation
China Democracy Educational
Foundation
China Democracy Party
Hong Kong Forum
Visual Artists Guild