PEN Petition to Free Liu Xiaobo

On December 8, 2008, authorities arrested prominent writer and PEN Member Liu Xiaobo after he co-authored a manifesto calling for greater freedoms and democracy in China. Writers around the world have called for Liu's release. But it's not enough. We need your help.
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SIGNATORIES
Edward Albee
Homero Aridjis
Margaret Atwood
Paul Auster
Alan Ayckbourn
Jung Chang
J. M. Coetzee
Don DeLillo
Carol Ann Duffy
Umberto Eco
Ian McEwan
Moris Farhi
Michael Frayn
Sir David Hare
Ronald Harwood
Ha Jin
Ma Jian
Azar Nafisi
Michael Ondaatje
Wole Soyinka
Sir Tom Stoppard
Salman Rushdie
Per Wästberg
Elie Wiesel

International PEN Board
Jirí Gruša
Eugene Schoulgin
Eric Lax
Karin Clark
Mike Butscher
Cecilia Balcázar
Yang Lian
Mohamed Magani
Kristin T. Schnider
Haroon Siddiqui
Hori Takeaki

President Emeritus
Terry Carlbom

Vice Presidents of International PEN
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Lucina Kathmann
Boris A. Novak
Gloria Guardia

Adelaide PEN
Miriel Lenore
Dominique Wilson

American PEN
Siri Hustvedt
Ron Chernow
K. Anthony Appiah
Francine Prose
Rick Moody

Austrian PEN
Wolfgang Kubin

Canadian PEN
Alison Gordon
Marian Botsford Fraser
Camilla Gibb
Reza Beraheni
Charles Foran
Sandra Martin
Martha Butterfield
Susan Coyne
Graeme Gibson
Louise Dennys
Katherine Govier
Brenda Carr Vellino
Kathryn E Langley Hope
Kevin McLoughlin
Pamela Porter
John Eerkes-Medrano
David Williams
Jack E.G. Dixon
Lola Tostevin
Mark Frutkin
Sheila Whyte
Joseph Simons
Talia Zajac
Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr
Maurice Breslow
Linda Spaulding
Bruce MacDougall
David Bergen
Hank Bulmash
Phil Jenkins
Michael Helm
Jay Macpherson
Vera Frenkel
Oscar Goodman
Murray Melville
Dahlia Liwsze
Nino Ricci
Ellen Seligman
Ron Graham
John Ralston Saul

Catalan PEN
Carme Arenas
David Figueres Felip
Rosa Fabregat
Daniel Nomen i Recio
Valentí Gómez i Oliver
Carme Ramilo Martínez
Margarita Ballester Figueras
Joan Buades
Helena Porteros Liroz
Guillem-Jordi Graells
Assumpta Cantalozella
Tònia Passola
Gabriel de la S. T. Sampol
August Bover Font
Helena Vidal
Manel Ollé Rodríguez
Miquel Berga
Miquel Cardell Santandeu
Vicent Pitarch i Almela
Raffaella Salierno
Ramon N. Prats
Carme Riera
Jaume Cabré
Adrià Chavarria
Josep Maria Fonalleras
Joan Guasp Vidal
Antònia Vicens
Pep Coll
Helena Pol
Miquel Desclot
Emili Olcina Aya
Carmen Borja
Iolanda Bonet
Maria Teresa Pous
Josep-Ramon Bach
Ainara Munt Ojanguren
Joan Rendé i Masdéu
Teresa Colom Pich
Jordi Vintró
Assumpció Forcata
Antoni Puigverd
Ramon Pla i Arxé
Alex Broch
Mercè Otero Vidal
Ponç Pons
Josep Lozano
Bartomeu Fiol
Antoni Vidal Ferrando
Pilar Garriga
Patrícia Gabancho
Francesc Parcerisas Vázquez
Miquel M. Gibert
Maria Mercè Roca
Oriol Izquierdo
Joaquim Carbó Masllorens
Sebastià Perelló
Quim Monzó
Maria-Antònia Oliver
Jordi Valls Pozo
Arnau Pons
Núria Cabré Castellví
Lluís Urpinell-i-Jovani
Maria Barbal Farré

Cuban Writers in Exile PEN
Luis Ignacio Larcada

English PEN
Julian Evans
Martin Goodman
Eric Clark
Rosemary Friedman
Christopher Southgate
Wendy Mulford
Tom Cheesman
Carole Seymour-Jones
Marilyn Malin
Xandra Bingley
Barry Kernon
Paul Levy
Ros Schwartz
Amanda Craig
Liu Hongbin
Frances Spalding
Jonathan Prichard
Elizabeth Maslen
Lynne Reid Banks
Anne Louise Fisher
Nicholas Murray
Cat Lucas
Ivan Jones
Ruth Fainlight
Miriam Moss
Penelope Bennett
Paul Griffiths
Nouritza Matossian