Major Internet news portals in China has been ordered to remove special topic pages on the Nobel Prize, and domestic microblog services in China are reportedly also being censored, with references to Liu Xiaobo and the peace prize disallowed.
Given strict controls, references online to Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize were of a supremely oblique nature — like the response from popular novelist, blogger and race car driver Han Han, who posted an entry with only a pair of quotation marks.
Images, however, are much more difficult to subject to technical Internet controls. And one of the strongest statements came from artist Kuang Biao (邝飚).
In this cartoon, posted by Kuang to his QQ blog, a Nobel Prize medallion is locked behind prison bars. Underneath the image, Kuang has simply written “10-8-2010,” yesterday’s historic date.
The Associated Press reports that supporters and friends of Liu Xiaobo gathered outside his Beijing apartment yesterday evening as his wife was reportedly kept inside by police. The AP also reports that “a civil rights lawyer, a retired official-turned-blogger and a dozen other people” who cheered and waved placards reading “Long Live Freedom of Speech” last night were taken away by police.
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