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Video Joe Higgins questions Taoiseach over visit of Chinese Vice-President

Dr. Liu Xiaobo is in his third year of an 11 year sentence in China. His crime was to write a charter seeking democracy, freedom of speech and religion and an independent judiciary. Over Christmas, Chen Xi was sentenced to ten years in jail in south-west China for the crime of writing articles on the Internet seeking political reform and human rights. At the same time, Chen Wei was given nine years in jail for articles critical of the Communist Party of China. Amnesty International asked the Taoiseach to raise...

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Published By: joehiggins.eu - Friday, 20 April

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