Demonstration and Torch Parade for Liu Xiaobo
Amnesty International celebrates the Nobel Peace Prize winner and focuses on Human Rights in China 9 and 10 December. A number of prominent Chinese Human Rights activists will participate.
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Amnesty International in cooperation with several other organisations will focus on Human Rights in China and The Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in the coming week.
Demonstration
9th December 3pm outside the Chinese Embassy in Tuengen Allé 2B.
The banners will read "Free Liu Xiaobo!" og "Free all prisoners of conscience in China!". The Embassy will receive ten thousands of signatures from Amnesty Internationals petition for Liu Xiaobo, collected in Norway as well as internationally.
Link to the petition here.
Breakfast Seminar (organisers: PEN International and Amnesty International)
10th December 9-1am in Amnesty’s premises in Grensen 3, third floor.
Key-note speakers followed plenary discussions.
The seminar is open to the press and the public.
Speakers
Mr. Salil Shetty, the international Secretary General of Amnesty International, on Human Rights in China and the role of activists
Mr. Yang Jianli, Harvard Fellow and President, Initiatives for China, on experiences from Chinese prisons
Mr. Wan Yanhai, HIV/AIDS activist and founder of Beijing's Aizhixing Institute, on HIV/AIDS work in China
Ms. Martin-Liao Tienchi, President of Independent Chinese PEN Centre, on Liu Xiaobo and Charter 08
Mr. Yu Zhang, Executive Secretary of Independent Chinese PEN Centre, on freedom of speech
Mr. John Ralston Saul, President of PEN International, on the role of the writers.
Mr. Lee Cheuk Yan, Secretary General of Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, on economic growth versus respect for Human Rights in China
Chair: John Peder Egenæs, Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway.
Torch Parade for Liu Xiaobo
10th December 6pm.
The torch parade will start at Youngstorget and stop outside Grand Hotel, where a picture of Liu Xiaobo will be projected unto the hotels facade to mark the absence of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Torch parades will also be organised in Trondheim and Kristiansand.
Read more about the torch parade here.
Contact persons: Amnesty International
Ingvild Gjone Lyberg, Press Officer. Phone: 476 56 340. Email: [email protected]
Ina Tin, Head of Communications, Phone: 474 00 285. Email: [email protected]
Contact person: The Norwegian PEN Centre
Anders Heger, President. Phone: 906 87 018
INFORMATION
For general questions:
[email protected]
Media:
[email protected]
Amnesty International in cooperation with several other organisations will focus on Human Rights in China and The Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in the coming week.
Demonstration
9th December 3pm outside the Chinese Embassy in Tuengen Allé 2B.
The banners will read "Free Liu Xiaobo!" og "Free all prisoners of conscience in China!". The Embassy will receive ten thousands of signatures from Amnesty Internationals petition for Liu Xiaobo, collected in Norway as well as internationally.
Link to the petition here.
Breakfast Seminar (organisers: PEN International and Amnesty International)
10th December 9-1am in Amnesty’s premises in Grensen 3, third floor.
Key-note speakers followed plenary discussions.
The seminar is open to the press and the public.
Speakers
Mr. Salil Shetty, the international Secretary General of Amnesty International, on Human Rights in China and the role of activists
Mr. Yang Jianli, Harvard Fellow and President, Initiatives for China, on experiences from Chinese prisons
Mr. Wan Yanhai, HIV/AIDS activist and founder of Beijing's Aizhixing Institute, on HIV/AIDS work in China
Ms. Martin-Liao Tienchi, President of Independent Chinese PEN Centre, on Liu Xiaobo and Charter 08
Mr. Yu Zhang, Executive Secretary of Independent Chinese PEN Centre, on freedom of speech
Mr. John Ralston Saul, President of PEN International, on the role of the writers.
Mr. Lee Cheuk Yan, Secretary General of Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, on economic growth versus respect for Human Rights in China
Chair: John Peder Egenæs, Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway.
Torch Parade for Liu Xiaobo
10th December 6pm.
The torch parade will start at Youngstorget and stop outside Grand Hotel, where a picture of Liu Xiaobo will be projected unto the hotels facade to mark the absence of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Torch parades will also be organised in Trondheim and Kristiansand.
Read more about the torch parade here.
Contact persons: Amnesty International
Ingvild Gjone Lyberg, Press Officer. Phone: 476 56 340. Email: [email protected]
Ina Tin, Head of Communications, Phone: 474 00 285. Email: [email protected]
Contact person: The Norwegian PEN Centre
Anders Heger, President. Phone: 906 87 018
INFORMATION
For general questions:
[email protected]
Media:
[email protected]