Liu won the prize because his lifelong commitment to political activism makes him exceptional. But we ought to pay equally close attention to another jailed Chinese activist, one whose plight at the hands of China’s justice system is just as troubling as Liu’s – and far more revealing of the boundaries of permissible dissent.
刘晓波之所以能得到这个奖，是因为他将毕生精力投入到了政治行动之中。但我们同时也应该对另一个在押的中国异见分子给予同样关注，他在中国司法系统中的困境与刘晓波类似——且更深刻地揭露了所谓许可之下的异见的界限。