One of the founders of that political movement and intellectual Liu Xiaobo repeatedly imprisoned and punished, until recently sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment for crimes of opinion only. Liu Xiaobo, by virtue of its strong commitment to promoting human rights, was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace. In prison can not rejoice with anyone, he is prevented from giving interviews to journalists, and even his wife, Liu Xia is under arrest for the simple fact of being the wife of a Nobel prize uncomfortable.
I ask Mr. President and Mr. Minister - and I will end here - to reserve Liu Xiaobo to your fellow citizen the same reception that was given to me, and if this is not possible and convenient, ask to be freed and cleared of his charges. What today can hug his wife, who on December 10 he would withdraw the Nobel Prize.
I ask you a lot, I am aware. I ask this in the name of the unbounded admiration I feel for this country in the name of a large and growing recognition of China as a world player by the entire international community, I ask, remembering the emotion I experienced sixty years ago, because those promises of a newborn's Republic of China are no longer disregarded.
Thank you, Mr. President, thank you Mr. Minister.
This is the speech that I wanted to hear from President Giorgio Napolitano, a person whom I respect, on the occasion of his visit to China. So it was, there were only vague references to human rights and smoky (that probably nobody understands).
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Toni La Malfa