Tragic tale of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife; the former resides in prison, the latter isolated under house arrest. The rule of law is often synonymous with liberty, but that is far from the case here. As once Chinese official said, “China is a country under the rule of law. Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to imprisonment by China’s judicial authorities for violating the law.” Law is what people make it.
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A Chinese Internet cafe worker received an eight-year jail sentence for posting pro-democracy articles online. No surprise that China remains cozy with Assad’s Syrian regime, where tens of thousands have died for daring to seek freedom.
