Nobel Institute warned not to award prize to Chinese dissident

September 28th, 2010

The Chinese government is putting pressure on the Nobel committee not to award the peace prize to Liu Xiaobo. The activist is currently serving an 11-year sentence for subversion. According to the director of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, deputy foreign secretary Fu Ying said giving the prize to Liu would damage relations between China and Norway. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Liu’s actions are “diametrically opposed to the aims of the Nobel prize”. The winner of the 2010 Nobel peace prize is due to be announced in Oslo on 8 October.

Norwegian PEN

May 20th, 2009

Norwegian PEN is the Norwegian division of International PEN. It works and fights for authors´ and other writers´ right to freedom of expression.

Norwegian Human Rights Fund

May 20th, 2009

The Norwegian Human Rights Fund was established to protect and promote human rights internationally. The fund financially supports projects in low- and middle income countries where the human rights situation is particularly difficult, either in general or for specific groups of the population.