‘Release Liu Xiaobo’, UN panel
A United Nations human rights panel of legal experts has called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife
Times square protest
Free Tibet activists display the ‘banned in Tibet’ Tibetan national flag in front of giant Xinhua advertisment at Times Square. Organisers of the protest, Students of a Free Tibet called Xinhua, China’s state-run media agency as the main censorship agency in the world’s second largest economy.