freedom now is a non-governmental organization and works as a lawyer for liu xiaobo outside china. on 6 october 2010, they publicly released a letter from 30 u.s. members of congress to president barack obama (the 2009 nobel peace prize winner). this letter strongly asked president obama to talk directly to chinese president hu jintao at the g-20 summit in november 2010. they wanted obama to talk about liu xiaobo and another political prisoner named gao zhisheng .