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| Liu Xiaobo |
The Chinese government lashed the Nobel and in an explicit way called the award “an obscenity” that goes against the aims of the award. In a statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry threatened that the award would hurt China’s relations with Norway.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu in a recent statement said in less harsh language, accusing Liu Xiaobo for violating Chinese law.
Liu was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment in December, though there were no official details given by authorities stated which laws he has violated.
The 54-year-old writer was detained two years back for the release of controversial Charter 08- a manifesto he helped organize that asks for political reform in the nation.
Patrick Poon, of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, a writers’ group that Liu has earlier lead, says Chinese government harsh step actually backfired and people will inspire to speak out openly.
"As we can also see in the situation in the past few years, there may have been more and more crackdowns, but we have not seen a decreasing number of dissidents, people expressing their views," said Poon.
The Chinese media also banned the news of Nobel Peace award and the international media broadcasting were temporarily cut. Internet users could find the news but only if they use proxies to bypass the cyber blocks the Chinese government maintains to sieve out information that seems to them sensitive or illegal.
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