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nese officials have detained, placed under house arrest, or 
harassed many of them; 
Whereas in 2010, many persons from around the world nomi-
nated Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize, including 
the 14th Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Vaclav 
Havel, and 7 members of the United States House of 
Representatives; 
Whereas, on October 8, 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Com-
mittee announced its award of the 2010 Nobel Peace 
Prize to Liu Xiaobo for his ‘‘long and non-violent strug-
gle for fundamental human rights in China’’; 
Whereas the Norwegian Nobel Committee noted that, ‘‘the 
campaign to establish universal human rights also in 
China is being waged by many Chinese * * * through the 
severe punishment meted out to him, Liu has become the 
foremost symbol of this wide-ranging struggle for human 
rights in China’’; 
Whereas when on October 9, 2010, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo’s 
wife, notified her husband that he had been awarded the 
Nobel Peace Prize, he responded by dedicating the prize 
to ‘‘the Tiananmen martyrs’’; 
Whereas Chinese officials responded to the award by placing 
Liu Xia under house arrest, harassing and detaining Liu 
Xiaobo’s friends and supporters, censoring Internet Web 
sites and blacking out television broadcasts that reported 
the award, and defaming Liu Xiaobo by describing him 
as a ‘‘criminal’’, a ‘‘political tool of the West’’, and a 
‘‘traitorous operative’’; 
Whereas Chinese officials have claimed that the imprison-
ment of Liu Xiaobo is an internal matter and that the
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award constitutes meddling in China’s internal affairs; 
and 
Whereas President Barack Obama, the recipient of the 2009 
Nobel Peace Prize, has congratulated Liu Xiaobo on the 
award and called on Chinese officials to release him from 
prison: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) congratulates Liu Xiaobo on the award of the 
2010 Nobel Peace Prize; 
(2) honors Liu Xiaobo’s promotion of democratic 
reform in China, and the courage with which he has bore 
repeated imprisonment by Chinese officials; 
(3) states that in honoring Liu Xiaobo, it also hon-
ors all those who have promoted democratic reform in 
China, including all those who participated in the 1989 
Tiananmen Square demonstration for democratic reform; 
(4) asserts that Liu Xiaobo is a political prisoner, 
and that Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo’s supporters, and all sign-
ers of Charter 08 who have been detained, placed under 
house arrest, or harassed, are the victims of political 
persecution; 
(5) calls on Chinese officials to release Liu Xiaobo 
from prison, and to release Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo’s sup-
porters, and all signers of Charter 08 from detention, 
house arrest, and harassment;
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(6) calls on Chinese officials to cease censoring 
media and Internet reporting of the award of the Nobel 
Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo and to cease their campaign 
of defamation against Liu Xiaobo; 
(7) urges President Barack Obama to continue to 
work for the release of Liu Xiaobo from prison, as well 
as the release of Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo’s supporters, and 
all signers of Charter 08 from detention, house arrest, 
and harassment; and 
(8) emphasizes that violations of human rights in 
general, and the persecution of Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xia, Liu 
Xiaobo’s supporters, and all signers of Charter 08 spe-
cifically, are matters of legitimate concern to other gov-
ernments. 
Attest: 
Clerk.