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Mo Yan, the Chinese winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, speaks during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Janerik Henriksson/Scanpix

A canada goose uk black friday group of 134 Nobel laureates including the Dalai Lama, wrote to buy canada goose jacket Chinese Communist Party chief and president in waiting Xi Jinping urging him to release Liu, who won the prize two years ago. They also want Xi to free Liu wife.

The case has drawn attention to China canada goose human rights record, although China says Liu is a criminal and decries such criticism as unwarranted interference in its internal affairs.

Mo, the Canada Goose online first uk canada goose outlet Chinese national to win the $1.2 million literature prize who was Canada Goose Coats On Sale in Stockholm to receive the award, refused to express support for Liu, and sometimes appeared agitated after repeated thecanadagooseoutlet questions over Liu at a news conference.

have already issued my opinion about this matter (over Liu), he told journalists in Stockholm through a translator, days ahead of the formal Canada Goose Outlet award canada goose factory sale ceremony.

In October, after the award announcement, Mo said he canada goose uk shop hoped canada goose clearance that Liu would uk canada goose achieve his freedom as soon as possible.

have said this prize is about literature. Not for politics, said the 57 year old whose adopted pen name Mo Yan means speak

WORLD ATTENTION Despite world canadian goose jacket attention on days of Nobel prize events cheap Canada Goose in Stockholm, Mo shunned any chance of making a clear call for Liu freedom.

am sure you know what I said that day canada goose clearance sale (in October). Why do you want to canada goose uk outlet repeat that? Time is precious, he said when pressed over Liu.

have never praised a system of censorship, but also censorship exists in every country, he added. is only a difference of a degree of censorship.

Pressed on whether he would support the call from the laureates, Mo cheap canada goose uk said: have always been independent. I like Canada Goose Parka it that way. when I am forced to express my opinion, I will not do it. They have also denounced him for commemorating a speech canada goose black friday sale by former paramount leader Mao Zedong.

Hu Jia, one of China most canada goose coats on sale prominent dissidents, told Reuters he was Canada Goose sale disappointed by Mo statements on Thursday.

he not just say one sentence Canada goose down in his (Liu support? Hu said.

In November, Herta Muller, who won the Nobel literature prize in 2009, called the Nobel award for Mo a

Liu, a veteran dissident involved in 1989 pro democracy protests crushed by the Chinese army, won the prize in 2010. He had been jailed the year before and is buy canada goose jacket cheap serving an 11 year sentence. His wife Liu Xia is under house arrest.

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SAN BERNARDINO (Reuters) California shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was a devout Muslim who made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2013 and prayed regularly at a mosque in Riverside, California and later at one in nearby San Bernardino, officials at the mosques said on Thursday.

Syed Rizwan Farook is pictured in his California driver’s license, in this undated handout provided by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, December 3, 2015. REUTERS/California Department of Motor Vehicles/Handout

is someone who used to listen to my sermons, my talks here, said Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Center of Riverside. sat up last night thinking about him and what happened.

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FBI and police continue their investigation around the area of the SUV vehicle where two suspects were shot by police following a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California December 3, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb, writing by Robin Respaut; Editing by Sue Horton and Cynthia Osterman.