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June 3, 2011

Free Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo, Chinese scholar and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is serving an 11-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power”. Urge Chinese authorities to free Liu Xiaobo immediately.

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May 6, 2011
Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, is serving a ten-year prison sentence for sending an email. Call on China to release him.
December 22, 2012

Zainab al-Khawaja and Ma'suma Sayyid Sharaf were released on 20 December. They were arrested on 15 December for participating in a protest. The charges against them remain.

February 26, 2012

Gilda Silvestrucci has been campaigning for justice for journalists threatened, attacked or killed as a consequence of their work. She recently received death threats, and her safety is at risk....

February 3, 2012
Robert Waterhouse, a 65-year-old man, is scheduled to be executed in Florida on February 15 for a murder committed in January 1980. At the time of his trial, DNA technology did not exist. Mr. Waterhou...