Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A574-W342

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Release Date: October 9, 2010

发布日：2010年10月9日

Topic: Senior Chinese Dissident Criticizes Liu Nobel (Agence France Presse)

标题：资深中国持异议者批评刘的诺贝尔奖（法新社）

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Senior Chinese dissident criticizes Liu Nobel

(AFP)

8 October 2010

WASHINGTON - A senior figure in China's democracy movement said Friday that others deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than Liu Xiaobo, calling him a moderate willing to work with Beijing.

The Nobel committee gave the prestigious prize to Liu, a writer and academic who was jailed in December 2009 after co-writing a manifesto for democratic reforms in China.

Wei Jingsheng, who spent nearly two decades in prison for his stinging calls for democracy in China, said Liu had often been allowed to operate freely and had criticized proponents for more sweeping changes.

"In my observation, the Nobel Peace Prize is going to Liu because he is different from the majority of people in opposition. He made more gestures of cooperation with the government and made more criticism of other resisters who suffered," Wei told AFP in Washington, where he lives in exile.

While China has denounced the Nobel committee, Wei said that Beijing's criticism was comparatively low-key.

"That might be the main reason that the Norwegians were finally able to withstand the pressure," Wei said.

Wei said that the Nobel would help Liu leave jail earlier and raise the profile of moderate reformists, in the process encouraging Chinese to work within the system.

"Unless the political system of the Chinese government is indeed heading for a peaceful evolution, political stability would serve to consolidate the one-party dictatorship and be negative to both reformists and revolutionaries," he said.

Wei said there were "tens of thousands" of Chinese who would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize including Hu Jia, a jailed advocate for AIDS patients, Chen Guangcheng, who exposed corruption in the one-child policy, and missing human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.

Wei himself has been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize in the past.

A former electrician at the Beijing zoo, Wei rose to prominence after leader Mao Zedong died in 1976 and the government encouraged Chinese to put up posters airing grievances about past excesses.

Wei boldly put up a poster urging democracy and signed his name to it. He spent a total of 18 years in prison, partially on death row, until an appeal by then US president Bill Clinton allowed him to go into exile.

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A574-W342

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A574-W342

Release Date: October 9, 2010

发布日：2010年10月9日

Topic: Senior Chinese dissident criticizes Liu Nobel (Agence France Presse)

标题：资深中国持异议者批评刘的诺贝尔奖（法新社）

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资深中国持异议者批评刘的诺贝尔奖（法新社）

二○一○年十月八日，华盛顿 -- 一个中国民运的资深人物星期五说，其他人比刘晓波更配得诺贝尔和平奖。他称刘是一个愿意与北京当局合作的温和改良派。

诺贝尔委员会将这个有声望的奖颁给了在2009年12月后因共同创作在中国进行民主改革宣言的被监禁的作家和学者。

由于要求中国民主的热切呼唤而在中国监狱里被关近20年的魏京生说，过去刘能自由运作并批评更为彻底的变革支持者。

“据我的观察，这次刘晓波能够获奖，是因为他有一个和大多数反对派人士不同的特点，就是和当局的合作姿态比别人多，对受苦受难的反抗者的批评也比别人多。”流亡在外的魏在华盛顿对法新社说。

虽然中国谴责诺贝尔委员会，魏说北京的批评比较低调。

“这也许是挪威人终于可以“顶得住压力”的主要原因，”魏说。

魏说，诺贝尔奖将帮助刘及早离开监狱，并提高温和改良派的形象。这些温和改良派鼓励中国人在体制内合作。

他说：“除非中国政府确实正在进行政治体制的和平演变。否则，稳定的政局对巩固一党专政有利，对改革者和革命者都不利。”

魏说，有成千上万的中国人有资格获得诺贝尔和平奖，其中包括被关押的鼓吹艾滋病患者权益的胡佳，揭露一胎化政策的腐败的陈光诚，和失踪的人权律师高智晟。

在过去，魏本人是靠前的诺贝尔和平奖候选人。

魏曾在北京动物园做过电工。在1976年领袖毛泽东去世后，政府鼓励人民张贴大字报对过去的错误表示不满时，魏成为一个突出人物。

魏大胆地贴出大字报，要求民主并签署了自己的姓名。他总共在狱中度过了包括在死牢中的18年，直到当时的美国总统比尔克林顿的请求才使他得以流亡。