Nothing comforted me more in these dark days of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident in prison (for Specifically, by what I've read, now under house arrest) Liu Xiaobo, or rather to his empty chair in Oslo.
The image of the empty chair has been around the world, and has also climbed over the wall of censure by the Chinese government , as to what I read there was a sort of revolt of empty chairs, which appeared at night the streets of the country.
The words that the writer has given the Chinese when he was sentenced to 11 years in prison (one year ago), on charges of being a criminal who wants to subvert the laws of the State, are a veritable hymn to love and peace and therefore deserve to be known to all.
Below a part of his speech read by Liv Ullmann to of the award ceremony in Oslo.
