China: Award for Dissident Criticized

[Coventina]

Source: New York Times

China has strongly condemned the decision by the European Parliament to select a jailed Chinese dissident, Hu Jia, for a prestigious human rights award. “We express strong dissatisfaction and stern opposition,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said in a written statement issued late Thursday evening. The European Parliament selected Mr. Hu on Thursday as the winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for his advocacy of human rights and democracy in China. Last April, Mr. Hu was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on a subversion conviction, based on his critical essays about the Communist Party’s rule.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/world/asia/25briefs-AWARDFORDISS_BRF.html?ref=world

[northofdenali]

1. Sounds like a response worded by our very own

Karl Rove, eh?

[Lefty48197]

2. Fuck you China.

Fry in hell you murderous bastards.