Veteran Democracy Activist Hosts CCCR Meeting on "Free Nobel Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo"

On November 19, 2013, Chen Liqun, a veteran democracy activist, who is also adviser to "Chinese Coalition for Citizens Rights", hosted a meeting on "Free Nobel Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo" at the CCCR office in New York, USA.

At the meeting, Ms. Chen briefed on Liu Xiaobo's article, "Charter 08", and his 11-year prison sentence in 2009, and the awarding of the Nobel Prize Prize to him in 2010, to members of "Chinese Coalition for Citizens Rights". She said that it was Liu Xiaobo's freedom of speech in writing this article, and it was a serious violation of his basic human rights by the Chinese government to put him in jail for 11 years because he wrote this article.

A number of CCCR members attending this meeting also spoke out at the meeting in support of Liu Xiaobo, calling on the Chinese government to have him released from prison immediately.

Members of Chinese Coalition for Citizens Rights attending today's meeting include: Jin Yuzi, Piao Hulin, Dong Zhenghu, Ming Jian, Ju Yuzi, Zhao Meiling, Piao Chunzi, Jing Honglian, Jin Tiezhen, Deng Huanhuan, Piao Ri, Li Yufu, Yu Jie, Shen Wenlie, Xu Zhejun, Qian Haijin, Piao Yingmei.