{"id":44226,"date":"2014-12-16T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44226 "},"modified":"2014-12-16T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:38:00","slug":"44226-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44226","title":{"rendered":"China pro-democracy activist Xu Youyu awarded Swedish rights prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last Updated: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 &#8211; 17:53<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Stockholm: Chinese pro-democracy activist Xu Youyu, who was among key signatories of a 2008 manifesto seeking sweeping political reforms in China, was awarded Sweden`s Olof Palme human rights prize on Tuesday.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;He has worked consistently for a democratisation of Chinese society, while condemning any form of violence as a political method,&#8221; the Stockholm-based Olof Palme Memorial Fund said in a statement.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;Through his research and dialogue-oriented debate articles, Xu Youyu has made a great contribution to the peaceful and democratic development in China.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Born in 1947, Xu is a philosophy professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Science and was one of the most prominent signatories of the 2008 Charter 08 manifesto that urged a series of reforms in China.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>He was detained in May this year in a crackdown on dissent ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The Olof Palme Prize is an annual prize worth $75,000 granted by the Swedish labour movement. It commemorates the memory of the Nordic country`s Social Democratic prime minister, an outspoken international human rights advocate, who was assassinated in the Swedish capital in 1986.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/world\/china-pro-democracy-activist-xu-youyu-awarded-swedish-rights-prize_1515731.html\">Continue reading the original article<\/a>.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&quot;Through his research and dialogue-oriented debate articles, Xu Youyu has made a great contribution to the peaceful and democratic development in China.&quot;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}