On May 28, the City of Montreal made Mr. Raif Badawi, a blogger imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, an honorary citizen.
REPORTAGE
Sidhartha Banerjee of the Canadian Press reports:
CBC News reports:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/raif-badawi-citizen-montreal-1.4680368
In the Montreal Gazette, Catherine Solyom reports:
COMMENTARY
In the Montreal Gazette, Celine Cooper writes:
http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/celine-cooper-raif-badawi-deserves-honorary-citizenship
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In Toronto, three organizations plan to erect a monument to honour Mr. Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese writer and activist.
The organizations are Amnesty International Canada, the Toronto Association for Democracy in China, and PEN Canada.
REPORTAGE
In the Toronto Star, Gilbert Ngabo reports:
Lynn Desjardins of Radio Canada International reports:
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/05/29/statue-chair-liu-china-canada/
On July 13, 2017, the Associated Press reported the death of Mr. Liu:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3595736/liu-xiaobo-chinese-political-prisoner-dies-cancer/
COMMENTARY
Read PEN Canada’s press release:
In the National Post, Robert Fulford writes: