World Report 2011 - China |Publisher||Human Rights Watch|
|Publication Date||24 January 2011| |Cite as||Human Rights
Watch, World Report 2011 - China, 24 January 2011, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/4d3e801820.html [accessed 24 May
2013]| |Disclaimer||This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is
not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its
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United Nations or its Member States.| Events of 2010 Imprisoned
dissident Liu Xiaobo's selection as the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
winner in October was a defining moment for China's human rights
movement. It also focused global attention on the extent of
human rights violations in China, and on its unreformed,
authoritarian political system as it emerges as a world power.
The Chinese government tried to censor news about the prize
domestically, immediately placing Liu's wife Liu Xia under house
arrest and clamping down on rights act