Ai Weiwei Calls for Release of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo by Chinese Authorities

July 11th, 2017

Ai Weiwei has publicly called for the release of dissident activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who is currently in the custody of the Chinese government, and who is suffering from liver cancer. “I think the government should release him. This is a historic mistake,” he said. “The government should just release him and have a better record – because this is going to be remembered by the whole world … what they are doing.”

Read more at The Guardian