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This Tuesday, Feb. 7 2012 photo shows 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo holding a doll in a detail of a photograph by his wife, Chinese artist Liu Xia on display at during a preview of "The Silent Strength of Liu Xia" exhibit at The Italian Academy in New York. The photos were...

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A woman watches a Chinese artist Liu Xia photo during the vernissage of her photo exhibition in Boulogne-Billancourt, a neighboring suburb of Paris on October 19, 2011. The picture shows Liu Xia's husband, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo imprisoned for an 11-year term for...

AP Photo 4 months ago

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, a police vehicle stationed outside the apartment, center top floor, where Liu Xia, wife of jailed democracy campaigner and Novel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, is believed to be held incommunicado in Beijing, China. In the quiet, leafy...

AP Photo 4 months ago

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, a Chinese police officer reads a newspaper in a police vehicle stationed outside the apartment block where Liu Xia, wife of jailed democracy campaigner and Novel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, is believed to be held incommunicado in Beijing,...

AP Photo 4 months ago

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, a Chinese security guard watches over an entrance to the compound where Liu Xia, wife of jailed democracy campaigner and Novel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, is believed to be held incommunicado in Beijing, China. In the quiet, leafy...

AP Photo 5 months ago

A photograph from "The Silent Strength of Liu Xia", an exhibit of photographs by Liu Xia, wife of imprisoned 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo, which will be presented at Columbia University starting Feb. 9, 2012.

AP Photo 5 months ago

FILE - This undated file photograph provided by Columbia University is from "The Silent Strength of Liu Xia", an exhibit of photographs by Liu Xia, wife of imprisoned 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo, which will be presented at Columbia University starting Feb. 9, 2012 in New...

Reuters Pictures 6 months ago

Demonstrators demanding the release of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and to redress miscarriage of justice of the June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement, are detained by police during a protest in Hong Kong August 17, 2011, where Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang is on his visit. Bearing...

AP Photo 6 months ago

A protester burns a letter during a protest as they demand the release of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and insist the rehabilitation of the June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown, outside a hotel where China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang stays in Hong Kong Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. Li is on a...

AP Photo 6 months ago

Police officers stand guard against a group of protesters who are demanding the release of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and insist the rehabilitation of the June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown, outside a hotel where China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang stays in Hong Kong Wednesday, Aug....

Reuters Pictures 6 months ago

Demonstrators demanding the release of Nobal Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and to redress miscarriage of justice of June 4th pro-decmoracy movement in 1989, confront police during a protest in Hong Kong where Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang is on visit August 16, 2011. Li arrived in Hong...

Reuters Pictures 6 months ago

Demonstrators wearing t-shirts demanding the release of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and to redress miscarriage of justice of June 4th pro-democracy movement in 1989, stand in front of the police during a protest in Hong Kong where Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang is on visit, August...

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: Chinese dissident writer Yu Jie (R) stands next to an interpreter as he speaks to the media during a news conference at the National Press Club January 18, 2012 in Washington, DC. Yu, who had published a book about Premier Wen Jiabao in 2010, said he was...

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This file photo taken on December 25, 2010 shows protesters from various democracy organisations marching to the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong to call for the relesae of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo (portrait). A United Nations panel has called...

Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Chinese dissident Chen Xi is seen in this undated handout photo released by his family on December 26, 2011. A court in China sentenced on Monday a veteran dissident, Chen Xi, to 10 years in jail for subversion, his wife said, one of the heaviest sentences given for political charges...

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(L-R) Nobel Peace Prize laureates Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, human rights activist Tawakul Karman from Yemen and president of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Nobel attend a presser at Nobel institute on December 9, 2011. Five Nobel Peace Prize winners have launched a campaign...

Reuters Pictures 8 months ago

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (C) walks past police as he arrives to give support to Liu Xiaobo, one of China's most prominent dissidents, outside the courthouse where Liu is on trial in Beijing in this December 23, 2009 file photo. Dissident Chinese artist Ai, detained since April, was...

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Pro-democracy activists and supporters hold banners calling for the release of jailed mainland Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as they march during a protest in Hong Kong on May 29, 2011. About 1,000 pro-democracy supporters marched to call for justice for the victims of the bloody 1989...

Reuters Pictures 9 months ago

Chinese artist Ai WeiWei (C) walks past police as he arrives to give support to Liu Xiaobo, one of China's most prominent dissidents, outside the courthouse where Liu is on trial in Beijing in this December 23, 2009 file photo. Detained Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei was allowed...

Reuters Pictures 9 months ago

Pro-democracy supporters hold posters featuring detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo during a protest in Hong Kong May 2, 2011. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China staged the rally to re-enact Ai's project "Fairytale:...

Reuters Pictures 10 months ago

A pro-democracy protester carries portraits of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (bottom), Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo (upper L) and dissident Tan Zuoren as he walks to China's liaision office in Hong Kong April 10, 2011. China has extended a crackdown on dissidents, human rights lawyers...

Getty Images 10 months ago

A policeman looks on as Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei is surrounded by the media outside the courthouse during the trial for leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo on subversion charges on December 23, 2009 in Beijing, in a case criticised by the United States, the...

Getty Images 10 months ago

A bouquet of Jasmine flowers is held before a poster of detained Nobel peace laureate and mainland Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, as protesters gather outside the Chinese liason office in Hong Kong on April 3, 2011. The protesters were supporting calls in mainland China for 'Jasmine'...

Getty Images 11 months ago

A demonstrator wears a mask of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo during a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin on December 10, 2010. The demonstration took place as jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

AP Photo 11 months ago

A carnival float shows Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo of China as a yellow Statue of Liberty during the traditional Rosemonday carnival parade in Cologne, Germany, Monday, March 7, 2011. The Rosemonday parade in Cologne, visited by one million spectators, is one of the highlights...