China tightens grip ahead of Nobel ceremony
China stepped up security in Beijing and maintained a clampdown on contacts of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo hours before Friday’s ceremony awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize. Official newspapers said the decision to award the prize to Liu, sentenced last December to 11 years jail for subversion, marked an attempt to impose foreign values on China. “Today in Norway’s Oslo, there will be a farce staged: ‘The Trial of China’,” the popular Global Times, run by the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, said in an editorial. The BBC said its English-language website appeared to have been blocked in several areas of China, for the first time since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Access to other…
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