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BEIJING — Increasing the pressure on China, a star-studded group of Nobel peace laureates has signed an open letter calling for the world’s leading economies to lobby Chinese President Hu Jintao for the release of dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, recipient of this year’s award.
The letter released Monday by Liu’s U.S. lawyers was written at the initiative of Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and signed by, among others, former Polish President Lech Walesa, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama — all recipients of the peace prize.
The Chinese government had no immediate comment on the letter.
