Universal Freedoms

from "Jailed for Words: Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo" in the current NYR blog:

"Charter 08, a document that Liu helped write—and that was published in English for the first time in the January 15, 2009, issue of The New York Review—was soon signed by ten thousand Chinese. It demanded that

We should make freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and academic freedom universal, thereby guaranteeing that citizens can be informed and can exercise their right of political supervision."