Obama urged to push China’s Xi to release jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiabao and wife from prison | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

A group of 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on US President Barack Obama to make a public call for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during a summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The laureates, led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, wrote to Obama, who…